Yes, I did a little bit of checking online after I posted and found images for the annotinum and it does look like a dead match complete with fruiting bodies- http://www.floracyberia.net/pteridophyta/lycopodiaceae/lycopodium_annotinum_annotinum.html I also looked for a herbarium specimen in the catalog and it appeared to be a hit. http://www.portableherbarium.com/Lycopodium-annotinum.jpg I've got the clavatum (wish I could find the annotinum to buy). I read the same thing you did, "it doesn't seem to like to be transplanted" and was also told by the gal who propagated them that they didn't like being transplanted so I was to be careful that the pH was as close to 4 as possible. Evidently chances of survival are considerably lower, if not virtually non-existant, if they are field collected because their root systems are brittle. I didn't notice this but then again I didn't handle the roots at all. I would have to agree that they don't like being transplanted and mine were container grown. I literally snipped the pots off mine by slicing them down the sides to reduce stress to the plants and sunk the whole contents straight into the bog. I was careful and the plants still look hokey to me and it's three months later. I think the lack of rain took a toll on many plants but they may perk up by next year. Who knows. It's a wait and see game with this weird weather. If you ever find any of these online somewhere for sale, please let me know.

Thanks for the replies. Also, sorry for the typo error, uncinata is the correct name. I found this fern at Lowe's about a month ago. As usual they were sold in hanging baskets. I hang the pots on tree branches and then noticed that there were thin threads growing out of the nodes. It dawned on me that maybe this fern wants to grow on the ground, not in a hanging baskets where the "rootlets" (?) didn't have anything to grow on. So, I filled up a kiddie pool with "landscaper's mix"(bought at Walmart), mixed in some cow manure and a bit of super-phosphate and planted the fern in it. The whole thing is now sitting in the shade, and seems to be doing well. The new growth seems to be rather stringy and yellowish-brown in color, but later develops the blue-green color. I am rather happy with the development so far. Hopefully it will continue to do well. Will post pictures later. Thank you again for the info. You've all been great.

It depends on the Lycopodium. Some species (mostly the ones more recently moved into Diphasiastrum) are hemiparasitic and difficult to propagate. Others (e.g., the things that are now Huperzia) are easy to propagate asexually, and even produce structures (gemmae) for precisely this purpose. Patrick Alexander

Thanks for the feedback. Ladyslppr: I do think the spiderwort is a garden escape, so not a true volunteer. I'll be working on getting rid of it (have to dig down). Davidl: I love the heart-leaved asters too, although they do reseed prolifically in my yard and I've cleared them out of certain areas where they were engulfing smaller natives. Peter: I actually had a pokeweed along the fence last year covering up a missing slat, but it hasn't come back. I do get a little nervous about its reseeding habit, but the birds love the berries and it's nice to have such a tall herbaceous plant in a garden with lots of small plants. Beggar ticks aren't a big problem so far, but I'll probably pull them. Indian tobacco has little blue & white flowers in the late summer when not much else is happening, so I may keep it (although it reseeds quite a bit). I'm surprised no one said anything about the brambles -- I had been pulling this religiously. Should I let it grow? They seem to pop up all over the place. I didn't mention my least favorite native volunteer -- poison ivy -- it serves an ecological purpose in the woods away from habitation, but just doesn't fit with my small native garden. My next door neighbor has it all over and every year it starts to come through, under and over the fence and I break my 'no chemicals' policy and get out the Brush-B-Gon. Another native volunteer I didn't mention is daisy fleabane, Erigeron sp. I tend to pull these also, but I'm not sure why. -- wd (Now if I can only encourage some volunteer native birds to nest in my birdhouse so I stop unintentionally breeding English house sparrows.... but that's a post for another forum.)