On a recent walk near Echo Cove, I noticed a lovely patch of a club moss sporting dozens of erect spore-bearing “cones.” We have several types of club moss here, but the only one I recognize ...

True mosses ... spores or ‘candles’ to appear during the late summer or fall. This family is closely related to ferns. It is a mystery to me how the family Lycophyta got the common name club ...

While our forests are still bare and free of snow, the club mosses are most evident. This is the season to enjoy their beauty, learn to identify them and brush their powdery spores into the air ...

The Irish (and Scotch) moss sold as ground cover is a miniature flowering plant, not a true moss. Likewise Spanish moss, a bromeliad. Club mosses are primitive, but less so than the real thing.

Some weeks ago, I wrote about spore dispersal in bird’s nest fungi ... This spring-board mechanism is also seen in some club-mosses (Lycopodium, including our local L. selago), which disperse ...

None of the students in the class knew what to look for.a Clubmosses and the familiar soft green moss are not ... that contains spores and rises as a stalk or “club” above the plant.

When the spores mature, a fern leaf comes alive. Look how things are moving under there. Each of these clusters is called a sorus. And every worm-like thingy is a sporangium full of spores.

Kenrick, of The Natural History Museum in London, said the structure of the spore wall resembles today's liverworts, a moss-like plant. Wellman's team discovered the spores by sieving through core ...

When she and her daughter sprayed the patches with a hose, spore-filled sacs ... waiting to be found. A sporangium of Physarum leucopus clings to a bit of moss in Buckinghamshire, England.