Selaginella ludovicianaA.Braun

gulf spikemoss

WFO wfo-0001109653 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Selaginella ludoviciana, photographed by Tres Fisher
fig. a Tres Fisher, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-04-16 / obs. 121254858
Selaginella ludoviciana, photographed by Jessica
fig. b Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61797226
Selaginella ludoviciana, photographed by Jody Shugart
fig. c Jody Shugart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4717896
Selaginella ludoviciana, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. d Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59573253
Selaginella ludoviciana, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. e Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202063497
Selaginella ludoviciana, photographed by John Kees
fig. f John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198485738
Selaginella ludoviciana, photographed by Jessica
fig. g Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170131879
Selaginella ludoviciana, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. h Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 127963800

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Selaginella ludoviciana is native: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi AlabamaFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMississippi
Native distribution of Selaginella ludoviciana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mississippi MSI

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Diplostachyum ludovicianum (A.Braun) Small
  • Lycopodioides ludoviciana (A.Braun) Kuntze
  • Lycopodium apothecium Bevis ex Heynh.
  • Lycopodium louisianum Link ex Courtin
  • Lycopodium lousianum Link ex Courtin
  • Lycopodium ludovicianum A.Braun
  • Selaginella albiduta var. macrostachya Hieron.
  • Selaginella apoda unranked major A.Braun
  • Selaginella apoda var. ludoviciana (A.Braun) B.F.Hansen & Wunderlin
  • Selaginella apotheca A.Braun
  • Selaginella apothecia Stansb.
  • Selaginella apothecium Bevis ex Heynh.
  • Selaginella apus var. denticulata Spring
  • Selaginella apus var. macrostachya A.Br.
  • Selaginella louisiana (Link ex Courtin) A.Braun ex Lauche
  • Selaginella luisiana A.Braun ex Lauche
  • Selaginella scalariformis A.Braun

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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