蘿かげ

noun

common clubmoss; stag's-horn clubmoss; running clubmoss; ground pine

Obsolete term for Lycopodium clavatum. In modern Japanese, the plant is called ヒカゲノカズラ. The kanji 蘿 is rarely used today.

See also: ヒカゲノカズラ

• 古ふるい本ほん草ぞう書しょには「蘿かげ」をかげと読よませ、ヒカゲノカズラを指さすとある。

  Old herbal texts read 蘿 as かげ and say it refers to ヒカゲノカズラ.