English: Groundcedar; Creeping jenny; Northern running-pine.
Synonym: Lycopodium complanatum
Region: colder northerly parts of the world; Canada, Greenland, northern and central Europe, British Isles, Russia, China, Japan, India, Thailand, northern United States.
Habitat: dry coniferous forests.
BotanyFern; clubmoss; perennial; spreading by stolons, running along the ground.
Stems: branching within the same geometric plane.
Leaves: strobili vertical; borne in groups of up to 4; at the ends of some of the branches.