Monilophytes (ferns): Ophioglossoid Ferns (eusporangiate ferns): Ophioglossales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Botrychium simplex var. simplex
FAMILY
Ophioglossaceae
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Learn more about Botrychium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Botrychium simplex
FAMILY
Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Botrychium simplex var. simplex
COMMON NAME:
Least Moonwort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bosi_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Botrychium simplex var. simplex
FAMILY
Ophioglossaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Botrychium simplex
FAMILY
Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Botrychium simplex var. simplex
2451
Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare
Look for it in disturbed gravelly areas in spruce-fir forests, northern hardwoods forests, grassy balds, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Leaf consists of a 1-pinnate to nearly simple sterile blade & a fertile panicle
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
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