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Botrychium campestre
Also called Prairie Moonwort, Dunewort, Prairie Dunewort, Plains Grapefern, Plains Moonwort
Botrychium campestre is a fern species in Ophioglossaceae, commonly called prairiemoonwort, prairie dunewort, Iowa moonwort, or plains grapefern. It was first discovered in 1982 and described a few years later.
Botrychium campestre is found growing in dry prairies, and perched dunes. Until its discovery in 1982 it was not generally known that Botrychium spp. (moonworts) occurred in prairies. The dominant species found along with this fern include clump-forming grasses such as Schizachyrium scoparium var. scoparium (little bluestem), Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem), and Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula (side oats gramma).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Botrychium campestre 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.
