It prefers disturbed areas and coniferous forests, where it can form dense monocultures.
However, it has recovered throughout its range, and makes large clonal colonies, carpeting the forest floor. This plant was once widely harvested and sold as Christmas greenery, and populations were widely depleted for this reason. It normally grows to a height of about four inches (10 cm), with the spore-bearing strobili held higher. Its leaves are scale-like and appressed, like a mature cedar, and it is glossy and evergreen. Its common name is due to its resemblance to cedar boughs lying on the ground. For many years, this species was known as Lycopodium flabelliforme or Lycopodium digitatum. It was formerly included in the superspecies Diphasiastrum complanatum. It is a type of plant known as a clubmoss, which is within one of the three main divisions of living vascular plants. It is the most common species of Diphasiastrum in North America. ambiguum Victorinĭiphasiastrum digitatum is known as groundcedar, running cedar or crowsfoot, along with other members of its genus, but the common name fan clubmoss can be used to refer to it specifically.
Lycopodium flabelliforme (Fern.) Blanch.
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