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Myriopteris gracilis
Also called Slender Lip Fern
Myriopteris gracilis, commonly known as slender lip fern or Fee's lip fern, is a small fern native to western North America, with a few scattered populations in the east. Its leaves grow in clusters and are dissected into beadlike segments, pale green with pale hairs covering the underside. One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was usually classified in the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes feei until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It grows in rocky habitats, usually over limestone.
M. gracilis can be grown in well-drained garden soil augmented with sand. The soil should be basic and is best kept dry. It prefers full sunlight.
Myriopteris gracilis is native to much of western North America from British Columbia and Alberta south to northern Mexico, and throughout much of the central United States. Its distribution is centered on the Rocky Mountains. It is less frequent to the east of the Rockies in the Great Plains, but is found in many places in the Driftless Area and the Ozarks. A few populations are found as far east as Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina. In Mexico, it is known from the northernmost states, Chihuahua and Coahuila, and more recently from Sonora.
Lip Fern · Texas Lipfern · Alabama Lipfern · Myriopteris allosuroides · Golden Lipfern · Myriopteris chipinquensis · Myriopteris cinnamomea · Cleveland's Lipfern · Cooper's Lip Fern · Myriopteris covillei · Myriopteris cucullans · Fendler's Lip Fern
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