A tuft of long, thin, scaly plant stems growing from rocky soul. The live scale-leaves are a light green, with rusty brown near the base of the living leaves, and older growth is desiccated and grey.

Selaginella wallacei (Wallace's spikemoss) is a lycophyte, one of the oldest groups of land plants, with identifiable members represented in the fossil record as early as 425 million years ago.

#selaginella #spikemoss #lycophyte #plant #inaturalist #macro #okanagan #similkameen #canada

A plant formed of several whorls of branching stems fanning out with tiny green leaves with a faint blue iridescence. The plant is growing in a brownish-green mossy substrate.

My Selaginella uncinata is growing out nicely since I got just a few scraggly twigs in December!

#selaginella #lycophye #peacockfern #gardening #terrarium #propagation #spikemoss

A macro photo showing a a small spike moss shoot with green fronds in the centre. It is surrounded a tangle of red snaking shoots and fronds

It's a bit mucky when you get down to the level of this spike moss. It doesn't seem to mind and I quite like a bit of muck 🌱
#Selaginella erythropus
#Selaginellaceae
#sydney #garden #BalconyGarden #UrbanGarden #UrbanPlanting #SpikeMoss