This blog was started for me to show my adventures in the natural places of our world.
I love botany, flora, fauna and photography.  While my photos are not the best in the world, I do enjoy taking them and sharing with others.  

This first entry will showcase two common types of Running pine found in Upstate New York.  I photographed these at the Wilton Wildlife Preserve in the Opdahl section.   

This first photo depicts both Running Ground Cedar" Lycopodium - a club moss Lycopodium digitatum ), and Running Clubmoss otherwise known as Stag's horn clubmoss ( Lycopodium clavatum)

 

Running Ground Cedar is a common woodland plant.  Note on the right side of the photo the peduncle rising in the plant's center.  This is the strobili (cone-like spore-bearing structures) that are the plants reproductive parts.  

Stag's horn Clubmoss is the "fuzzy" looking plant to the top and left.  It is a spore bearing vascular plant that runs along a main stem.