Princess Pine

[moodnacreek]

This is a question more or less directed at Swampdonkey as I have only herd it in New Brunswick.

[Otis1]

Well I just googled Princess pine and it looks like what I've always called ground pine. It is a member of the clubmoss family and native to most of the eastern US and Canada. They say it's somewhat rare, but I've definitely seen it in Wisconsin. I guess there are a couple other ones that look similar.

[moodnacreek]

Well I just googled Princess pine and it looks like what I've always called ground pine. It is a member of the clubmoss family and native to most of the eastern US and Canada. They say it's somewhat rare, but I've definitely seen it in Wisconsin. I guess there are a couple other ones that look similar.

Thankyou.

[SwampDonkey]

Some folks have used it a lot for Christmas decorations. I have none on my land, but it was always plenty under spruce or pine trees of mixed other species. Not seen under maple forest or cedar. It's certainly not plenty like Schreber's under fir/spruce forest.

[barbender]

We have tons of it in northern MN.

[Don P]

I miss Doug's posts.

We have several flavors in the area, I can't keep the names straight, running cedar and creeping pine, or vice versa .
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[mudfarmer]

Guy from "across the pond" here walking in the woods with me, points it out (plant knower type) and says it is an indicator of relatively undisturbed forests. I did not point out that we were walking in a skidder rut.......... 

[SwampDonkey]

I've seen it on old field that returned to mature forest. It's typical of damp soil types, not dry sandy stuff. A common name here is ground pine. We have at least 4 species of the genus, a similar one is ground cedar, which is not flat topped. The other two look like pipe stem cleaner and don't branch aerially but come up off the runner.

[Southside]

We see it here too.