Selaginella braunii (involvens) Fred Meyer two-ranked foliage typical of the

two-ranked foliage typical of the wild species

The name means five colors in Japanese

worked into a mixed border

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

mint-family stems in mid to late summer

Selaginella braunii (involvens) Fred Meyer two-ranked foliage typical of theSelaginella 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,