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|accepted_name=Lycopodium clavatum
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1101. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Common club-moss;lycopode à massue
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lycopodium clavatum var. subremotum
|authority=Victorin
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Lycopodiaceae;Lycopodium;Lycopodium clavatum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lycopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lycopodium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lycopodium clavatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Horizontal </b>stems on substrate surface. <b>Upright</b> shoots clustered, 0.6–1.2 cm diam., dominant main shoot with 3–6 branches mostly in lower 1/2. <b>Lateral</b> branchlets few and like upright shoots; annual bud constrictions abrupt, branchlets mostly spreading. <b>Leaves</b> spreading, often somewhat ascending in distal 1/3 of branches, medium green, linear, 4–6 × 0.4–0.8 mm; margins entire; apex with narrow hair tip 2.5–4 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> 3.5–12.5 cm, with remote pseudowhorls of appressed leaves, loosely branched into 2–5 alternate stalks, 0.5–0.8 cm. <b>Strobili</b> 2–5 on alternate stalks (if double, usually with stalks 5–8 mm), 15–25 × 3–6 mm. <b>Sporophylls</b> 1.5–2.5 mm, apex abruptly reduced to hair tip. <b>2n</b> = 68.</span><!--

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|habitat=Fields and woods
|elevation=100–1800 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p>Plants found in eastern North America have been called <i>Lycopodium clavatum</i> <i></i>var.<i> clavatum</i>; those in the western part of the range, which have been called <i>L. clavatum</i> <i></i>var.<i> integrifolium</i> Goldie, are distinguished by early shedding of the characteristic hairs on the leaf tips.</p><!--
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name=Lycopodium clavatum
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lycopodium clavatum var. subremotum
|basionyms=
|family=Lycopodiaceae
|habitat=Fields and woods
|elevation=100–1800 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Lycopodium
|species=Lycopodium clavatum
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