Botrychium - Wikipedia Botrychium is a genus of ferns, seedless vascular plants in the family Ophioglossaceae [1] Botrychium species are known as moonworts They are small, with fleshy roots, and reproduce by spores shed into the air One part of the leaf, the trophophore, is sterile and fernlike; the other, the sporophore, is fertile and carries the clusters of sporangia or spore cases
Botrychium virginianum - North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox The leaves are light green, and the stalks are light green to red The plant consists of just two leaves: a sterile leaf and a fertile leaf The fertile leaf develops before the sterile leaf The sterile leaf is positioned horizontally Rattlesnake Fern and the Cutleaf Grape Fern (Botrychium dissectum) are very similar in appearance and habitat
Botrychium spp. - US Forest Service SUMMARY: This section summarizes information on the general ecology and fire ecology of 4 moonwort species: Botrychium lunaria, Botrychium matricariifolium, Botrychium montanum, and Botrychium paradoxum, using the sources available in the scientific literature as of 2014 Scientific literature available on these species was limited as of 2014
Botrychium spathulatum : Spatulate Moonwort - Minnesota DNR Botrychium spathulatum can be differentiated from the similar B minganense (Mingan moonwort) as well as B gallicomontanum (Frenchman’s Bluff moonwort) and B pallidum (pale moonwort) by its sessile trophophore, with the basal pinnae being the largest, and pinnae margins that are rounded and entire or, if dissected, irregularly so, with
Botrychium matricariifolium (Matricary Grapefern) - Minnesota Wildflowers Botrychium matricariifolium is the most common Botrychium species in Minnesota It can occur in populations of hundreds of plants, and is generally the easiest to spot It is also one of the most variable, which can make identification challenging In deep shade it may appear weak and spindly while in open, sunnier spots is much more robust
Botrychium multifidum — leathery grapefern - Go Botany Botrychium rugulosum: ultimate segments of vegetative portion of leaf angular, denticulate, mostly 2-5 mm wide, somewhat channeled and concave abaxially, semiherbaceous (vs B multifidum, with ultimate segments of vegetative portion of leaf rounded to obtusely pointed, entire to weakly creunulate, mostly 4-8 mm wide, plane, coriaceous)
Botrychium crenulatum Calflora Botrychium crenulatum W H Wagner Scalloped moonwort Botrychium crenulatum is a fern (rhizomatous) that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in western North America California Rare Plant Rank: 2B 2 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA; common elsewhere) Plant Range Observation Search ~229 records in California
Botrychium - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics In Botrychium and Helminthostachys, the aerial portions are pinnate; in Ophioglossum, the leaf ranges from simple to dichotomously branched in some epiphytic species The fertile spike is pinnate in Botrychium, dichotomously branched in Ophioglossum, and constructed of reduced branches radially arranged around the spike axis in Helminthostachys
Botrychium lunaria - Wikipedia Botrychium lunaria is a species of fern in the family Ophioglossaceae [5] known by the common name moonwort [6] or common moonwort It is the most widely distributed moonwort , growing throughout the Northern Hemisphere across Eurasia and from Alaska to Greenland , as well as temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere
Botrychium Treasure Hunts - US Forest Service On August 6 and August 20, 2011, members of the Nevada Native Plant Society visited two spring sites in the Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, to search for and, hopefully, learn how to identify Botrychium species Botrychiums, also known as moonworts, belong to the Ophioglossaceae, an ancient family of plants distantly related to modern ferns Moonworts produce a single leaf per year