Contemporary Circumscription Compared with A Utah Flora 4th ed.

Bio430

Lycopodiaceae

Not found in A Utah Flora; Flora of North America indicates it is found in the state, but no documentation exists. An aquatic angiosperm is sometimes mistaken for a Lycopodium. Older classifications place most species in the single genus Lycopodium, but more modern treatments recognize a number of genera.

Key Features

Terrestrial or epiphytic plants with scale-like microphylls, homosporous, eusporangiate, lacking a ligule.  Some species produce strobili, some do not.