NameThatPlant.net: Botrychium matricariifolium

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Botrychium matricariifolium FAMILY Ophioglossaceae Go to FSUS key

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Botrychium matricariifolium FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Botrychium matricariifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Botrychium matricariifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Botrychium matricariaefolium

COMMON NAME:
Daisyleaf Moonwort

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image of Botrychium matricariifolium, Daisyleaf Moonwort

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Botrychium matricariifolium FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Botrychium matricariifolium FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Botrychium matricariifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Botrychium matricariifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Botrychium matricariaefolium

2452

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Dry to moist forests (often successional), old fields, grassy balds, northern hardwood forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Leaf consists of a 1-pinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid sterile blade & a fertile panicle

FRUIT:
Summer

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