Dendrolycopodium dendroideum

Synonym: Lycopodium dendroideum.
English: Tree groundpine.
Region: North American, Canada, Russia.
Habitat: prefers humus-rich, sandy, moist but not completely saturated soils.
Ecology: increasingly rare due to overharvesting.
Use: for decorative Christmas greenery; spore as Lycopodium powder in early photography.BotanyFern; clubmoss; slow growing.TaxonomyIt is known as a groundpine, formerly lumped into the species Lycopodium obscurum. The genus Dendrolycopodium is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Other classifications submerge the genus in Lycopodium.