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Botrychium pallidum
Also called Pale Moonwort
Botrychium pallidum, the pale moonwort, is a species of segregate fern in the Ophioglossaceae family. It was originally described from Quebec, collected from a site near Baie-Sainte-Catherine. Prior to its discovery by Warren H. Wagner, it was only known from a herbarium record sheet at the Universite de Laval.
Pale moonwort is found in a variety of habitats both native and disturbed, including former mining sites, burned areas, and open, exposed hillsides. In the state of Colorado, it has been found only in high elevation, subalpine wetlands. After its identification in 1990, it was known from sporadic, small colonies dotted throughout Colorado, Saskatchewan, Michigan, Ontario, and Quebec. By 2006, a new population in Maine was identified by Art Gilman, then president of the New England Botanical Society. A species was reportedly collected in Manitoba in 1959 near Otterburne.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Botrychium pallidum 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.
