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Myriopteris covillei, known as Coville's lip fern, is a small rock-dwelling fern from the southwestern US and Baja California. It grows best in well-drained, gritty soil with bright light and dry-to-moist-dry conditions.
Myriopteris covillei, commonly known as Coville's lip fern, is a small fern found in the southwestern United States and on the Baja California peninsula, with an outlying population in southern Oregon. Its leaves grow in clusters and are dissected into beadlike segments; the undersides of the leaf axes are covered with whitish scales that conceal the green tissue of the leaf. One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was usually classified in the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes covillei until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. The species usually grows on or near rocks. It is named in honor of the botanist Frederick Vernon Coville, co-collector of the type specimen in 1891.
Myriopteris covillei can be cultivated, and should be grown under high light in well-drained garden soil. The soil should be dry to moist-dry.
M. covillei ranges south from California into Baja California and Baja California Sur (with a disjunct presence in southern Oregon) and east to Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.
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