I have no idea...

[WimB]

Anyone knows which plant this is? It just popped up this year in a shady corner outside.

[mark smyth]

Looks like one of those strange 'mosses' that can be found at florists and garden centres

[Giles]

It's a Selaginella.
(like a Lycopodium)

[Giles]

.....could be Selaginella kraussiana 'Aurea' (but that's a bit of a guess).

[WimB]

That's it, thanks Giles.

Weird, it's a native of the azores and the Canary Islands and I see it can be quite invasive (It's a problem in New-Zealand; probably not in Belgium though, we still have real winters over here  ). Anyhow, I can't recall to have ever bought a plant like that... so I don't know how it got there

[Giles]

 

[Lesley Cox]

That's it, thanks Giles.

(It's a problem in New-Zealand;

Oh, is it?

[WimB]

Hi Lesley,

glad to have you back. 
This is what I found:

http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/pests/selaginella

[Giles]

We've got it in the UK, Wim, so I wouldn't be surprised if you've got it in Belgium too.
If you type in 'Selaginella' into the BSBI website it shows where it's been found:
http://www.bsbimaps.org.uk/atlas/main.php

[WimB]

Ah, yes indeed.

I had never seen it in Belgium before: global warming   

[Lesley Cox]

Now I recognise it Wim and yes, I have seen it on the forest floor sometimes, also tucked into florists' posies