Botrychium matricariifolium A.Braun

  • 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 matricariifolium A.Braun

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants 5–28 cm, wholly glabrous; bud with the blade bent over at the tip and clasping the erect sporophore; blade supramedial on the apparent stem, deciduous, with a 2–15 mm stalk, submembranous, oblong or ovate, mostly 1.5–7(–9) × 0.4–7(–7) cm, the pinnae 2–7 pairs, subopposite, obtuse or acutish, obtusely sublobate or in well developed plants again pinnatifid with obtusely lobed segments; sporophore 3–12+ cm, pinnate or bipinnate, its stalk 1–4 cm; 2n=180. Thickets and rich woods in subacid soil; circumboreal, in Amer. from Nf. to Alta., s. to N.J., Md., Va., N.C., Tenn., n. O., Wis., S.D., and Colo.; Patagonia. June–Aug. Ours is var. matricariifolium. (B. neglectum; B. oblanceum; B. pseudopinnatum; B. ramosum of auth.)

  • Common Names

    daisy-leaved grape-fern