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Hemionitis leucopoda
Whitefoot lipfern is a small, clump-forming fern up to about 30 cm tall, native to rocky sites in west-central Texas and northern and central Mexico. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so it needs well-drained, rocky conditions and dry-season care similar to other lip ferns.
Hemionitis leucopoda, the white-footed lip fern, is a species of fern native to Texas in the USA, and Mexico. It belongs to the family of the brakes and maidenhair ferns, the Pteridaceae.
In the USA, Hemionitis leucopoda is known only from the Edwards Plateau region of west-central Texas. In Mexico, it occurs in the northern and central states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalsico, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora and Tamaulipas.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hemionitis leucopoda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
