Sterile stems prostrate throughout (though not rooting proximally), mostly 1-1.5(-2) mm thick (excl. lvs), many of the lvs tending to spread laterally from the axis, parallel to the ground; cones 4-8 cm; otherwise much like no. 4 [Lycopodium alopecuroides L.]. Open, moist or wet places, and open wet coniferous woods, mainly on the coastal plain; N.C. to Fla. and Tex., and up the Mississippi embayment to w. Ky.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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