2020
NT6361 : Clubmoss in the Lammermuir Hills
taken 4 years ago, near to Penshiel Hill [hill or Mountain], East Lothian, Great Britain
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Clubmoss in the Lammermuir Hills
Shoots of the Stag's-horn or Common Clubmoss [Lycopodium clavatum] growing through heather moorland vegetation on the south bank of the Faseny Water. They produce spores in long narrow cones at the tip of 1-3 fertile branches NT6361 : Clubmoss in the Lammermuir Hills. Club mosses are very early plants, having been around since the Carboniferous era [300-360 million years ago], and giant specimens contributed to the Coal Measures.