Species: Botrychium pedunculosum

Stalked Moonwort
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Stalked moonwort is a perennial with a single above ground frond up to 25 cm tall. It is divided into two segments that share a common stalk. The lower common stalk is usually reddish brown and the upper part of the plant is a dull green. The mostly sterile segment is conspicuously stalked and once to twice pinnatifid with up to five pairs of primary pinnae. The pinnae have irregular lobes and vary from pinnatifid to bifid to narrowly fan shaped and the lower ones often bear sporangia. The fertile segment is longer than the sterile segment and bears grape-like sporangia that contain thousands of spores; larger plants usually have two large ascending lateral branches.

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Filicinophyta
Class

Ophioglossopsida

Order

Ophioglossales

Family

Ophioglossaceae

Genus

Botrychium

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Classification
Other Global Common Names
botryche pédonculé - stalked moonwort
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Ferns and relatives
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Filicinophyta - Ophioglossopsida - Ophioglossales - Ophioglossaceae - Botrychium

Stalked moonwort is a perennial with a single above ground frond up to 25 cm tall. It is divided into two segments that share a common stalk. The lower common stalk is usually reddish brown and the upper part of the plant is a dull green. The mostly sterile segment is conspicuously stalked and once to twice pinnatifid with up to five pairs of primary pinnae. The pinnae have irregular lobes and vary from pinnatifid to bifid to narrowly fan shaped and the lower ones often bear sporangia. The fertile segment is longer than the sterile segment and bears grape-like sporangia that contain thousands of spores; larger plants usually have two large ascending lateral branches.

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

Short General Description
Tall (5-25 cm) perennial moonwort. Stalk is often reddish brown at the base, splitting into a long-stalked dull gray-green blade (mostly sterile, leaf-like segment) and a fertile segment bearing spore clusters which often has two large lateral branches. The lowest segment of the leaf-like portion often bears spores as well.
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G2G3
Global Status Last Reviewed
2008-06-19
Global Status Last Changed
2000-11-15
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Occurs in northcentral and northeastern Washington, northeastern Oregon, central California, northern Idaho, northwestern Montana, west-central (Skeena River) and east-central (Quesnel area) British Columbia, two widely separated locations in southern Alberta (southwestern AB adjacent to MT occurrences and southeasten AB near SK border), and southern Saskatchewan. Disjunct occurrences are known from the Alaska peninsula and northern Quebec. Range extent calculated using GIS tools is somewhat dependent on which occurrences are considered "disjunct" from the main range, but an extent of around 500,000 km2 seems reasonable (considering AK occurrence, QC occurrence, and eastern SK occurrence as disjunct, and roughly following Farrar (2005) for likely range boundary).
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