Definition of Lycopodium alopecuroides

1. Noun. Ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States.

Exact synonyms: Foxtail Grass
Generic synonyms: Christmas Green, Ground Pine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lycopodium Alopecuroides

Lycium
Lycium barbarum
Lycium carolinianum
Lycium halimifolium
Lycoperdaceae
Lycoperdales
Lycopersicon
Lycopersicon esculentum
Lycopersicon esculentum cerasiforme
Lycopersicum
Lycophyta
Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiate
Lycopodineae
Lycopodium alopecuroides
Lycopodium alpinum
Lycopodium clavitum
Lycopodium complanatum
Lycopodium lucidulum
Lycopodium obscurum
Lycopodium selago
Lycopsida
Lycopus
Lycopus americanus
Lycopus europaeus
Lycopus virginicus
Lycosa
Lycosa tarentula
Lycosidae

Literary usage of Lycopodium alopecuroides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"lycopodium alopecuroides L. Fox-tail Club-moss. Fig. 105. lycopodium alopecuroides L. Sp. PI. 1102. 1753. Stems stout, mostly recurved and more or less ..."

2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... Openings in moist, coastal plain woods. A hybrid with L. appressa (L. copelandii Eig.) has been collected occasionally. lycopodium alopecuroides L. ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"The habitat " Canada" is given for lycopodium alopecuroides, Linn., in the " Species Plantarum," ed. 3, vol. ii. p. 1565 ; but it is probably not a Canadian ..."

4. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"lycopodium alopecuroides LM p. 25. Pine-barren swamps. Summer. Bucks—Tullytown (Fr.). Delaware—Tinicum, Dr. Geo. Smith (Fu.). New Jersey—Common in the pine ..."

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