Ruby Red Club Moss Fern Care

Design ideas use as a groundcover in a shady location or to showcase its dramatic foliage use in a hanging basket to show off its unique red underside.

Ruby red club moss fern care. Although closely aligned with ferns spike moss plants are more nearly related to ancient plants such as quillworts and lycopods. In the spikemoss family selaginella is a very good plant to grow in terrariums which is what i m doing. We love ruby red club moss for its unique coloring and mounding habit. Selaginella erythropus sanguinea ruby red club moss.

Ruby red spikemoss is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground hugging habit of growth. Ruby red club moss red spike moss selaginella erythropus ruby red is a beautiful choice for terrarium like setups and vivariums. Its mounding habit is made up of creeping stems that spread quickly across the soil forming a dense mat of foliage. On feb 10 2013 vossner from zone 8a wrote.

Care follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep extensive root system. Ruby red moss is a popular plant due to the unique coloration of its foliage. Despite the delicate tropical fern like appearance are tough easy to grow quite cold hardy and not a fern at all but does share features with. Under cold temperatures the foliage will turn red on the top but under normal growing conditions expect green on top and stems and underside to be the.

Its bright red stems accent the upright leaflets and dark green tops. Clubmoss requires high humidity so unless you live in the tropics you ll want to put this plant in a terrarium to keep it lush and green. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant. This group of fern and club mosses are called polypoiophyta.

The underside of the frond is a brilliant shade of ruby red that contrasts nicely with the olive to bronze green shade of the topside neutral. Has a lovely red. Rating neutral as new for me. Scaly foliage resembles that of arborvitae or cedar.

Under cold temperatures the foliage will tu. There are many varieties available for the gardener from ruby red spike moss fern to aurea golden spike moss. Clubmoss a spreading terrarium plant. Selaginella braunii arborvitae fern even though this plant has arborvitae fern as its common name it is not a fern at all but is a prehistoric fern relative called club moss or spike moss.

Emerald goddess gardens ruby red spikemoss fern plant selaginella unusual cold tolerant houseplant or outdoor shade garden starter size 4 inch pot emerald tm ruby red spikemoss or selaginella erythropus sanguinea is a wonderfully interesting plant. Its bright red stems accent the upright leaflets and dark green tops. Selaginella kraussiana i ll just say it up front. Under optimal conditions the underside will be a ruby red color contrasting nicely with the green.