Lycopodium hickeyi (Hickey’s tree clubmoss)

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Lycopodium hickeyi W.H. Wagner， Beitel & Moran

Hickey’s tree clubmoss

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Lycopodiophyta	Ancient plants that have only a single vein per leaf, limiting size
Class	Lycopodiopsida	“Fern allies”—clubmosses and firmosses
Order	Lycopodiales	Lycopodiums
Family	Lycopodiaceae	Lycopodiums, clubmosses
Genus	Lycopodium	From Greek lukos, “wolf,” and podion, “foot”
Species	hickeyi

About plant names...

Hickey's tree clubmoss is a native of northeastern North America.

Identification: This club moss reaches up to 6" (15 cm) in height, branching several times, looking like a tiny tree. Each branch is uniformly covered with many leaves up to ¼" (6.3 mm) long. Upward-pointing cone-like structures called strobili, ¼-2½" (8.4-63 mm) long, often appear on top.

Online References:

PlantSystematics.org (Dendrolycopodium)

Wikipedia (Lycopodium)

PlantSystematics.org

FossilFlowers.org

The New England Wildflower Society’s GoBotany site

References:

Symonds, George W.D., Shrub Identification Book, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1963, p. 328

Cobb, Boughton, Farnsworth, Elizabeth & Lowe, Cheryl, Peterson Field Guides: Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005, p. 288

Dendrolycopodium hickeyi (W.H. Wagner， Beitel & R.C. Moran) A. Haines

Lycopodium obscurum L. var. isophyllum Hickey

Lycopodium hickeyi description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 25 May 2020.