3 Lycopodium clavatum L.

Within the vast area of this variable species several lower taxa are distinguished (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 70). On this map the species is represented by the species s. str. (subsp. clavatum) and the arctic-subarctic subsp. monostachyon (Grev. & Hook.) Sel. (syn.: var. lagopus Laest.). It occurs also in several restricted areas outside the map, even in the southern hemisphere (Hultén, 1. cit.). The map does not give information as to all these occurrences. The species s. lat. belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, 1. cit. and map 61).