Try checking it against Selaginella images.

That's the stuff! Thanks, Floral_UK!

I guess the nursery employee heard the term "clubmoss," but didn't know what the characteristics of true mosses really are.

Sorry about the typos and auto-correct errors in that post. Geometry?? Too funny. Must reread my posts before submitting!

Posted by kwie2011
The nursery tried to tell me it wad a type of moss, but this was a vascular plant with true roots in the soil.

Actually, while the nursery was in error referring to it as a moss (though Selag are commonly and erroneously called "club mosses"), the nursery wasn't as far off as you may have thought. Selaginella are "primitive plants" related to mosses and ferns.

Like ferns and mosses, Selag reproduce via spores with a free living gametophyte generation and the sporophyte generation being dominant.

It is debatable as to whether Selag have true roots. Instead the root like appendages are referred to as "rhizophores ".

While Selag, unlike true mosses, does possess a vascular system, it is a more simplified vascular system than is found in ferns.