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Northern moonwort

Botrychium boreale

Also called Boreal Moonwort, Northern Grape Fern

Northern moonwort
Photo: Копылов-Гуськов Ю. О., CC BY 4.0
Family
Ophioglossaceae (Ophiogloss family)
Grows as
Fern
Native range
Canada to Greenland, N. & E. Europe to Japan (Hokkaido),
Climate
temperate

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Botrychium boreale, commonly called northern moonwort, is a species of fern in the family Ophioglossaceae. It has a short, single leaved rhizome that stands upright.

Other Botrychium plants

Trianglelobe moonwort · Iowa moonwort · Scalloped moonwort · Lanceleaf grapefern · Common moonwort · Matricary grapefern · Mingan moonwort · Mountain moonwort · Onondaga Moonwort · Pale botrychium · Peculiar moonwort · Northern moonwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Botrychium boreale by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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