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Myriopteris gracillima
Also called Lace Lip Fern
Myriopteris gracillima, commonly known as lace lip fern, is a small fern native to native to western North America, where it grows in the North American Cordillera from British Columbia south to central California and west to eastern Montana and Utah. Its leaves grow in clusters and are dissected into oblong segments, with dense hairlike scales on the underside and more or less absent on the upper side. One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was usually classified in the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes gracillima until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It grows in rocky habitats, usually over igneous rock.
Myriopteris gracillima can be cultivated, and should be grown under high light in well-drained garden soil with sand. The soil should be moist-dry and subacid.
M. gracillima is native to mountains in western North America, ranging from British Columbia and Alberta to California and southern Nevada. It is absent in lower elevation dry inland areas such as the shrub-steppe of central Washington and Oregon and the Central Valley of California, but is present in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, Idaho, western Montana, northeastern Utah, and Nevada.
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