''Lycopodium lagopus'', commonly known as one-cone club-moss, is an arctic and subarctic species of plants in the

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Lycopodium ''Lycopodium'' (from Greek ''lykos'', wolf and ''podion'', diminutive of ''pous'', foot) is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedars, in the family Lycopodiaceae. Two very different circumscriptions of the genus are i ...

'' in the clubmoss family. It is widespread in cold, northerly regions: Canada,

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, Russia, Scandinavia, and the northern United States including

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

.Altervista Flora Italiana, ''Lycopodium clavatum'' subsp. ''monostachyon'' (Grev. & Hook.) Selander
/ref> ''Lycopodium lagopus'' is very similar to '' L. clavatum'' except that it rarely has more than one cone per stem. There has been no evidence of the two interbreeding, even though they can sometimes be found growing next to each other.Flora of North America, ''Lycopodium lagopus'' (Laestadius ex C. Hartman) G. Zinserling ex Kuzeneva Prochorova, 1953. One-cone club-moss, lycopode patte-de-lapin
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Lycopodiaceae Medicinal plants Flora of Asia Flora of North America Flora of Europe Plants described in 1858 {{Lycophyte-stub