Krauss's clubmoss
Selaginella kraussiana (Kunze) A.Braun
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 8 cm
- wide
- 38 cm
Selaginellaceae
Also called Krauss's spikemoss, African Clubmoss, Mat spikemoss, Spreading selaginella, Forest Selaginella
Formerly Didiclis kraussiana, Gymnogynum kraussianum, Lycopodioides azorica, Lycopodioides kraussiana, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Trop. & S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 5 cm to 10 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 4.4 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 地柏, 小翠云
- French
- Sélaginelle de Krauss, Sélaginelle des jardiniers, Sélaginelle des Açores
- Finnish
- pikkumähkä
- Dutch
- Gazonmosvarentje, Krauss' Mosvarentje, Afrikaans mosvarentje
- Swedish
- glansmosslummer
- Danish
- Dværgulvefod
- German
- Feingliedriger Moosfarn
- Afrikaans
- woud aarmos
- Lithuanian
- Draikioji selaginelė
- Chinese (China)
- 小翠云
- Polish
- Widliczka Kraussa
- Slovak
- plavúnka Kraussova
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Selaginella kraussiana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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