Botrychium virginianum
Botrychium lunaria
botryche de virginie, common grapefern, rattlesnake fern
botryche lunaire, common moonwort, moonwort grapefern
to 12 pairs, usually approximate to overlapping, slightly ascending, distance between 1st and 2d pinnae not or slightly more than between 2d and 3d pairs, lanceolate, divided to tip.
to 9 pairs, spreading, mostly overlapping except in shaded forest forms, distance between 1st and 2d pinnae not or slightly more than between 2d and 3d pairs, basal pinna pair approximately equal in size and cutting to adjacent pair, broadly fan-shaped, undivided to tip, margins mainly entire or undulate, rarely dentate, apical lobe usually cuneate to spatulate, notched, approximate to adjacent lobes, apex rounded, venation like ribs of fan, midribs absent.
sessile;
blade pale green, 3–4-pinnate, to 25 × 33 cm, thin, herbaceous.
stalk 0–1 mm;
blade dark green, oblong, 1-pinnate, to 10 × 4 cm, thick, fleshy.
lanceolate and deeply lobed, lobes linear, serrate, apex pointed, venation pinnate, midrib present.
2-pinnate, 0.5–1.5(–2) times length of trophophore.
1–2-pinnate, 0.8–2 times length of trophophore.
=184.
=90.
Botrychium virginianum
Botrychium lunaria
Botrychium virginianum is the most widespread Botrychium in North America.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Botrychium lunaria grows with many other species of Botrychium, occasionally hybridizing with them. This species, geographically the most widespread of the moonworts, has notably uniform morphology.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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