Botrychium

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Ophioglossaceae

• Scientific Name

  Botrychium

• Description

  Genus Description - Lvs glabrous or sometimes with simple hairs; blades mostly pinnately or ternate-pinnately or subpalmately compound or dissected, seldom simple, the veins forked and free; sporophore 1–several times pinnate, the numerous sporangia short- stalked and free, spores 1500–2000. 30+, cosmop. Depauperate or juvenile plants of related spp. are scarcely to be distinguished; spp. 5–10 are morphologically confluent, but said to be genetically distinct.

• Common Names

  grape-fern