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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare in NC

Look for it in dry to moist forests (often successional), old fields, grassy balds, , per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Leaf consists of a pinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid sterile blade & fertile panicle

FRUIT:
Summer

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Monilophytes (ferns): Ophioglossoid Ferns (eusporangiate ferns): Ophioglossales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Botrychium matricariifolium FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Botrychium matricariifolium FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Botrychium matricariaefolium

COMMON NAME:
Daisyleaf Moonwort

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picture of Botrychium matricariifolium, image of Botrychium matricariifolium, photograph of -

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_boma2_001_lvd

"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed -- chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. ... It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods -- trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries ... God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools -- only Uncle Sam can do that." — John Muir