| Scientific Name: | Selaginella kraussiana |
| Common Name: | clubmoss, Irish moss, spike moss |
| Family Name: | Selaginellaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern, Africa - tropical |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | < 0.1m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Horizontal, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Scale-like, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Ovate, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Green, Brown, May-Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Low growing, highly branched, moss-like evergreen; tiny scale-like "leaves" in four rows, oblong-elliptic, 2.3-3.8mm long x 1-2mm wide. | |