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Myriopteris pringlei
Pringle's lip fern is a small rock-dwelling fern native to Texas, Arizona, and Mexico that grows on dry igneous rock slopes and ledges. It is best grown in a shallow, gritty mix in full sun or part shade, with infrequent watering.
Myriopteris pringlei, known as Pringle's lip fern, is a small fern of Texas and Mexico. The leaf is three to four times divided into elliptical or long-triangular segments. The leaf axis is scaly, while the leaf surfaces bear a few whitish hairs or are free of them altogether. One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was classified in the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes pringlei until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It typically grows on igneous rock. It is named after Cyrus Pringle, who collected the type specimen.
Myriopteris pringlei reaches the northern end of its range in southern Arizona. This represents the typical variety, M. pringlei var. pringlei, whose range extends southward through the Baja California peninsula and into Chihuahua and Sonora. M. pringlei var. moncloviensis occurs further to the east, ranging from Coahuila south through the mountains as far as Oaxaca.
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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.
