DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Lycopodium annotinum | Stiff Clubmoss 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Stiff clubmoss is a circumboreal species that is widely distributed from
Greenland and Labrador to Alaska, south to the northwestern United
States, Wyoming, Colorado, the Great Lakes States, New England, and
along the Appalachians [10,14,19,20,37].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  CO  CT  DE  ID  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN
     MT  NH  NJ  NY  NC  OR  PA  RI  TN  VT
     VA  WA  WV  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB  NB  NF
     NT  NS  ON  PE  PQ  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  DEWA  DENA  GLBA  GLAC
     GRTE  GRSM  ISRO  LACL  MORA  NOCA
     OLYM  PIRO  ROMO  SARA  SLBE  VOYA
     WRST  YELL  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   15  Black Hills Uplift


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - helmock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen 
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    37  Northern white-cedar
    38  Tamarack
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    60  Beech - sugar maple
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpinefir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce - paper birch
   


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Stiff clubmoss most often grows in coniferous, northern hardwoods, and
mixed hardwoods habitats [25,35,43].  It may also occur in
grass-sedge-heath associations [35].  Stiff clubmoss is characteristic
of boreal coniferous forests [23].  It is also an indicator of white
spruce (Picea glauca)-balsam fir (Abies balsamea) forest types in the
Great Lakes States [36].

Stiff clubmoss is listed as a codominant species in the following
published classification:

Field guide to forest ecosystem classification for the Clay Belt, site
region 3e [22].

Common shrub associates of stiff clubmoss include bog Labrador tea
(Ledum groenlandicum), cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus), prickly rose
(Rosa acicularis), white spiraea (Spirea betulifolia), blueberry
(Vaccinium spp.), twinflower (Linnaea borealis), alder (Alnus spp.),
Canada yew (Taxus canadensis), mooseberry viburnum (Viburnum
pauciflorum), and highbush cranberry (V. edule) [5,6,22,26].

Other associated vegetation includes heartleaf arnica (Arnica
cordifolia), bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), wild sarsaparilla
(Aralia nudicaulis), one-sided wintergreen (Pyrola secunda), sidebells
shinleaf (P. uniflora), queencup beadlily (Clintonia uniflora), orchids
(Corallorhiza spp., Calypso spp., Habenaria spp.), twisted stalk
(Streptopus amplexifolius), meadowrue (Thalictrum spp.), baneberry
(Actaea rubra), devil's club (Oplopanax horridus), miterwort (Mitella
spp.), lady fern (Athyrium felix-femina), woodfern (Dryopteris spp.)
sedges (Carex spp.), horsetails (Equisetum spp.), mosses (Mnium spp.,
Rhytdiadelphus spp., Polytrichum spp.), and lichens (Cladonia spp.,
Stereocaulon spp., Peltigera spp.) [5,6,22,26].

Related categories for Species: Lycopodium annotinum | Stiff Clubmoss