Species: Ophioglossum pusillum

Northern Adder's-tongue
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Plants and lichens of Puget Trough

Adder's Tongue is an herbaceous perennial that is up to 20 cm high. Each plant has an erect, leafless stem that is 2-15 cm high and which branches into a single leaf-like, ascending, sterile blade and into an erect, spike-like fertile stalk. The sterile blade is elliptic to broadly lance-shaped and 2-8 cm long with entire margins and a rounded to pointed tip. The upper portion of the fertile stalk has 2 rows of contiguous spore-bearing sacs on one side.

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Filicinophyta
Class

Ophioglossopsida

Order

Ophioglossales

Family

Ophioglossaceae

Genus

Ophioglossum

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Classification
Other Global Common Names
northern adderstongue - ophioglosse nain
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Ferns and relatives
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Filicinophyta - Ophioglossopsida - Ophioglossales - Ophioglossaceae - Ophioglossum - Treated as O. vulgatum var. pseudopodum in some older works (e.g., Fernald 1950).

Adder's Tongue is an herbaceous perennial that is up to 20 cm high. Each plant has an erect, leafless stem that is 2-15 cm high and which branches into a single leaf-like, ascending, sterile blade and into an erect, spike-like fertile stalk. The sterile blade is elliptic to broadly lance-shaped and 2-8 cm long with entire margins and a rounded to pointed tip. The upper portion of the fertile stalk has 2 rows of contiguous spore-bearing sacs on one side.

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1998-05-20
Global Status Last Changed
1989-04-20
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
From Nova Scotia west to North Dakota, south to Virginia, possibly North Carolina, Indiana, and Nebraska; and in the Pacific Northwest (Weakley, 1997). In California, known historically from El Dorado and Siskiyou Counties (Skinner, 1997).
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