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Plant ID Needed!?

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I've been trying for ages to find an id on these two plants.

Photographed in garret county, maryland.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/BreathingWhisper/SD532060.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/BreathingWhisper/SD532032.jpg

ID would be appreciated greatly!

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They look like they're a kind of club moss, exactly what species I couldn't tell you though.
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Most probably it is one of the species of Lycopodium of division Lepidophyta and family Lycopodiaceae

The exact species of the first one is Lycopodium clavatum.

http://botanika.bf.jcu.cz/morfologie/Lyc...

The second one is Selaginella of family Selaginellaceae.

http://www.blackjungle.com/Merchant2/ima...

It is also called "Spike Moss " Eventhough it is not a moss at all from Botanical point of view it is one of the Pteridophytes just as Lycopodium or Club Moss is Also a Pteridophyte .

It is a relative of Lycopodium ( a distant relative )
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