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Carl Farmer |
Frequent on high exposed ground, above about 300 m, among grass, heather or moss, or in stony places, sometimes carpeting the ground. Cones c 1-2 cm. Leaves c 2-4 mm. ID: The strongly glaucous colour is not found in any other clubmoss. The very rare D complanatum can be slightly glaucous and D alpinum can sometimes be rather yellowish-green. In such cases they can be told apart by D alpinum having the upright branches only slightly flattened; they are strongly flattened (and less upright) in D comlanatum. Other features: Has long creeping stems from which arise upright fertile and sterile branches, the fertile ones being those with spreading bracts in the picture, with spore-cases in the angle of the bracts. Sterile branches have leaves closely appressed to stem in 4 rows, these are the bright glaucous ones in the picture. |
