English: Northern firmoss; Fir clubmoss.
Region: south and north circumpolar; North America; Europe, northern Spain and Italy, British Isles; central Asia to the Kamchatka peninsula, Japan, Aleutian Islands, North America, Greenland and Iceland.
Habitat: sandy pits, ditches, along lakeshores, in conifer swamps.
Uses: medicinal.
"Upper Tanana Indians used the whole plant in a poultice applied to the head for headaches".[1]