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Hickey's tree-clubmoss
Dendrolycopodium hickeyi
28 photos
Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.
Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.
Easily confused with
flat-branched tree-clubmossDendrolycopodium obscurum
prickly tree-clubmossDendrolycopodium dendroideum
fan clubmossDiphasiastrum digitatum
common yarrowAchillea millefolium
stag's-horn clubmossLycopodium clavatum
Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.
Where it is recorded
| United States | 1,800 |
|---|---|
| Canada | 1,261 |
| Ontario | 606 |
| New York | 423 |
| Quebec | 326 |
| Massachusetts | 300 |
| Nova Scotia | 274 |
| West Virginia | 163 |
| Michigan | 158 |
| Minnesota | 148 |
Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.
Classification
| Kingdom | Plants · Plantae |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta |
| Class | Lycophytes · Lycopodiopsida |
| Order | clubmosses and firmosses · Lycopodiales |
| Family | Clubmosses and Firmosses · Lycopodiaceae |
| Genus | tree-clubmosses · Dendrolycopodium |
Sources
- Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
- Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
- How much to rely on each source
Remember the name next time.
Practise Hickey's tree-clubmoss with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.