Selaginella braunii (involvens) Fred Meyer Calycanthus floridus 'Athens'

Calycanthus floridus 'Athens'

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The plant spreads by shallow runners into a generous patch

mint-family stems in mid to late summer

Selaginella braunii (involvens) Fred Meyer Calycanthus floridus 'Athens'Selaginella braunii, known in older texts as Selaginella involvens and in gardens as Braun's spikemoss or the arborvitae fern, belongs to one of the oldest surviving lineages of plants on Earth. The Selaginellas are not true ferns but spikemosses, an ancient group whose ancestry runs back more than three hundred million years, long before flowering plants reshaped the world. In the shaded understory of primeval forests these plants held their ground,