It has a number of common names including lesser clubmoss, northern spikemoss, club spikemoss, low spikemoss and prickly mountain-moss.

Selaginella selaginoides - lesser clubmoss (north temperate Europe, Asia and North America)

There is a small patch of the nationally scarce bird's-eye primrose, Primula farinosa, and one of the few records from lowland Durham of lesser clubmoss, Selaginella selaginoides, is from this site.

It has a number of common names including lesser clubmoss, northern spikemoss, club spikemoss, low spikemoss and prickly mountain-moss.

It has a number of common names including lesser clubmoss, northern spikemoss, club spikemoss, low spikemoss and prickly mountain-moss.

It has a number of common names including lesser clubmoss, northern spikemoss, club spikemoss, low spikemoss and prickly mountain-moss.

It has a number of common names including lesser clubmoss, northern spikemoss, club spikemoss, low spikemoss and prickly mountain-moss.

Selaginella selaginoides.

Selaginella selaginoides - lesser clubmoss (north temperate Europe, Asia and North America)

Selaginella selaginoides is a non-flowering plant of the spikemoss genus Selaginella with a wide distribution around the Northern Hemisphere.

Phylogenetic studies by Korall & Kenrick determined that the Euselaginella group, comprising solely the type species, Selaginella selaginoides and a closely related Hawai'ian species, Selaginella deflexa, is a basal and anciently diverging sister to all other Selaginella species.