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Cryptogramma acrostichoides
Also called American parsley fern, American Rock Brake, Mountain Parsley Fern, Parsley Rockbrake
Cryptogramma acrostichoides is a fern species in the Cryptogrammoideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae. It is known by the common names American parsley fern and American rockbrake and is native to most of western North America, where it grows in the cracks of rocks in many types of sunny mountainous habitat.
Cryptogramma acrostichoides is found mostly in the coastal mountain ranges of western North America and in the Rocky Mountains. It ranges from Alaska to California in coastal mountains and the Cascade Mountains and Sierra Nevada, and from southeastern British Columbia through New Mexico in the Rockies.
Cascade rockbrake · Parsley fern · Fragile rockbrake · Rockbrake
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptogramma acrostichoides 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.
