Maine Biota Project
Lycophytes of Maine
(Kingdom Plantae, Lycophytes)
Below is a working list of Maine’s firmosses, quillworts, clubmosses, and spikemosses. Taxonomy and nomenclature follow Flora Novae Angliae by Arthur Haines (2011, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-17154-9). For more information about a particular species, click on the link under the heading “Common Name”, and you will be taken to a page for the family that includes that species.
Family |
Genus |
Species |
Authority |
Sub-species |
Authority |
Common Name |
Notes |
Huperziaceae |
Huperzia |
appressa |
(Desv.) A. & D. Löve |
  |
  |
mountain firmoss |
|
Huperziaceae |
Huperzia |
lucidula |
(Michx.) Trevisan |
  |
  |
shining firmoss |
|
Huperziaceae |
Huperzia |
selago |
(L.) Bernh. ex Mart. & Schrank |
  |
  |
northern firmoss |
|
Isoëtaceae |
Isoëtes |
acadiensis |
Kott |
  |
  |
Acadian quillwort |
|
Isoëtaceae |
Isoëtes |
echinospora |
Durieu |
ssp. muricata |
(Durieu) A. & D. Löve |
spiny-spored quillwort |
|
Isoëtaceae |
Isoëtes |
hieroglyphica |
A. A. Eat. |
|
|
carved quillwort |
|
Isoëtaceae |
Isoëtes |
lacustris |
L. |
  |
  |
lake quillwort |
|
Isoëtaceae |
Isoëtes |
prototypus |
D. M. Britt. |
  |
  |
prototype quillwort |
|
Isoëtaceae |
Isoëtes |
riparia |
Engelm. |
var. canadensis |
Engelm. ex N. E. Pfeiff. |
Canada shore quillwort |
|
Isoëtaceae |
Isoëtes |
tuckermanii |
A. Braun ex Engelm. |
  |
  |
Tuckerman’s quillwort |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Dendrolycopodium |
dendroideum |
(Michx.) A. Haines |
  |
  |
prickly tree-clubmoss |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Dendrolycopodium |
hickeyi |
(W. H. Wagner, Beitel, & Moran) A. Haines |
  |
  |
Hickey’s tree-cluubmoss |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Dendrolycopodium |
obscurum |
(L.) A. Haines |
  |
  |
flat-branched tree-clubmoss |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Diphasiastrum |
complanatum |
(L.) Holub |
  |
  |
northern ground-cedar |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Diphasiastrum |
digitatum |
(Dill. ex A. Braun) Holub |
  |
  |
southern ground-cedar |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Diphasiastrum |
sitchense |
(Rupr.) Holub |
  |
  |
Sitka ground-cedar |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Diphasiastrum |
tristachyum |
(Pursh) Holub |
  |
  |
blue ground-cedar |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Lycopodiella |
alopecuroides |
(L.) Cranfill |
  |
  |
foxtail bog-clubmoss |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Lycopodiella |
appressa |
(Chapman) Cranfill |
  |
  |
appressed bog-clubmoss |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Lycopodiella |
inundata |
(L.) Holub |
  |
  |
northern bog-clubmoss |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Lycopodium |
clavatum |
L. |
  |
  |
common clubmoss |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Lycopodium |
lagopus |
(Laestad. ex Hartm.) G. Zinserling ex Kuzeneva-Prochorova |
  |
  |
one-cone clubmoss |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Spinulum |
annotinum |
(L.) A. Haines |
  |
  |
common interrupted-clubmoss |
|
Lycopodiaceae |
Spinulum |
canadense |
(Ness) A. Haines |
  |
  |
northern interrupted-clubmoss |
|
Selaginellaceae |
Selaginella |
apoda |
(L.) Spring in Mart. et al. |
  |
  |
meadow spikemoss |
|
Selaginellaceae |
Selaginella |
rupestris |
(L.) Spring |
  |
  |
ledge spikemoss |
|
Selaginellaceae |
Selaginella |
selaginoides |
(L.) Beauv. ex Mart. & Schrank |
  |
  |
northern spikemoss |
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