The purpose of this forum is to help people identify things they've seen while out hiking: wildflowers, trees, birds, insects, small animals, animal tracks, even geographical features like buttes or streams
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Bosterson
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by Bosterson » January 21st, 2019, 8:07 am
This thing was weird, like a fir tip growing in vine form across the ground...
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Bosterson
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by Bosterson » January 21st, 2019, 11:15 am
Spot on, Adam, thanks, and I think you're right about the species. I don't think I've encountered that before, it was deep in the forest. Neat looking thing.
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texasbb
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by texasbb » January 21st, 2019, 3:34 pm
I'm glad to get that ID, as I've seen that stuff before and could never figure out what it was.
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BigBear
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by BigBear » January 24th, 2019, 12:46 pm
Thanks, Adam. I've seen this plant before but always thought it to be some kind of conifer vine, never would have gone with moss.
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adamschneider
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by adamschneider » January 24th, 2019, 5:11 pm
One of its common names is "ground-pine." And it's not really a moss; club-mosses and their relatives are a whole separate branch within the plant kingdom. (
Lycopodiophyta vs.
Bryophyta.)