Huperzia lucidula
Shining firmoss is an evergreen clubmoss of cool, moist hardwood and mixed forest floors across eastern North America. It needs deep shade, constantly moist acidic humus and a real cold winter, and it is notoriously hard to keep long term because it depends on soil fungi; most success comes from gemmae or divisions kept in a cool shaded woodland bed.
Where it grows wild
Grows on the floor of shaded, humid deciduous and mixed conifer-hardwood forests, often on mossy humus, rotting logs and stream terraces.
Recorded from near sea level to about 1,200 m (median about 400 m); in the southern Appalachians it climbs into cooler high-elevation forest.
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