Shining Clubmoss

Lycopodium lucidulum

Foliage Type:

leaf

Arrangement:

simple, alternate

Distinguishing features:

Habitats:	mesic sites wet mesic sites
Often confused with:	Staghorn clubmoss Stiff clubmoss
Ecological Value:
Did You Know?	A related Chinese species is being researched as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
Uses / Ethnobotanical uses:	American Indian used plant tea for postpartum pains, fever, weakness folk medicine, spores used for diarrhea, dysentery, rheumatism, also as diuretic, gastric sedative, aphrodisiac, styptic externally in powders for baby's chafing, tangled or matted hair with vermin, herpes, eczema, dermatitiis in folds of skin, erysipelas. spores (vegetable sulphur) formerly used to coat pills and suppositories