Selaginella braunii (involvens) Fred Meyer though the plant is no

though the plant is no true carnivore

The name means five colors in Japanese

The plant spreads by shallow runners into a generous patch

The genus name honors J

and thrives on exactly the conditions that defeat softer plants: blazing sun

Selaginella braunii (involvens) Fred Meyer though the plant is noSelaginella 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,