Selaginella braunii (involvens) Fred Meyer mint-family stems in mid to

mint-family stems in mid to late summer

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Calycanthus floridus 'Athens'

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

Selaginella braunii (involvens) Fred Meyer mint-family stems in mid toSelaginella 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,