#ground pine

[geopsych]

Close to the ground, October 2015.

[roberts-island]

Did you guys know about club moss? It’s a bryophyte that grows on the forest floor and makes tiny forests! Pictured (I think, still learning ID): interrupted clubmoss and prickly tree clubmoss.

[vandaliatraveler]

Autumn’s debris collects over a cooling blanket of ground pine and common haircap moss at the edge of a bog.

[frolicingintheforest]

Groundpine (Lycopodium obscurum)

[carnegiemuseumnaturalhistory]

Collected on this Day in 1917

Collected on February 3, 1917, this specimen was found by W. Millward in Butler County near the former Nixon Station on the Butler Trolley Short Line. This species, known as ground pine, belongs to an important group of plants that consists of the oldest living group of vascular plants called fern allies. This plant does not produce flowers or seeds.

Botanists at Carnegie Museum of Natural History share pieces of the herbarium’s historical hidden collection on the dates they were discovered or collected. Check back for more!

[2soupisgood2]

Look at them!

Lil guys!

[aphermion]

[frolicingintheforest]

Ground Pine (Lycopodium obscurum)