That would be Selaginella canaliculata, or as it's commonly known, club moss. The good news for non-terrarium folks is that club moss is a wonderful groundcover for a shady spot.

On the other hand, from a bryophile’s (moss lover’s) point-of-view, referring to a plant as a “moss” is a form of high praise because, as we all know, mosses are the best plants ever!

Gardeners looking for an attractive ground cover and something to brighten up a shady spot need look no further than Selaginella kraussiana 'Aurea.' If that name doesn't ring a bell, than perhaps ...

A Purdue University-led sequencing of the Selaginella moellendorffii (spikemoss) genome -- the first for a non-seed vascular plant -- is expected to give scientists a better understanding of how ...

If I understand him rightly, he suggests that the “spike” of Selaginella is the hornologue of the spike of Carex pulicaris. He compares, then, ...

Frond of the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii. Biologists have discovered that a fundamental building block in the cells of flowering plants evolved independently, yet almost identically, in ...

IN consequence of my not having expressed myself sufficiently fully, Prof. Thiselton Dyer somewhat misapprehends my remarks respecting Selaginella and Carex, to which he is good enough to reply in ...