Botrychium multifidum (S.G.Gmel.) Rupr.

  • 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 multifidum (S.G.Gmel.) Rupr.

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants 10–45 cm; bud pilose, its blade and sporophore reflexed; blade inframedial or nearly basal on an evident stalk, evergreen, rather fleshy or coriaceous, sparingly pilose, 3–15 × 3–20 cm, plane in life, 2–4 times ternate-pinnately compound, the pinnae and lesser segments often crowded, the ultimate segments less than twice as long as wide, obtuse or rounded, subentire to crenate or dentate; sporophore long-stalked, bipinnate or tripinnate; 2n=90. Meadows and open woods; circumboreal, in Amer. s. to N.C., Ill., Io., and Calif. Mostly Aug.–Sept. (B. matricariae; B. silaifolium)

  • Common Names

    leathery grape-fern