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moonworts
Botrychium
Botrychium is a genus of ferns, seedless vascular plants in the family Ophioglossaceae. Botrychium species are known as moonworts. They are small, with fleshy roots, and reproduce by spores shed into the air. One part of the leaf, the trophophore, is sterile and fernlike; the other, the sporophore, is fertile and carries the clusters of sporangia or spore cases. Some species only occasionally emerge above ground and gain most of their nourishment from an association with...
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Botrychium lunaria
complexBotrychium lunaria
Botrychium lanceolatum
complexBotrychium lanceolatum
Simplex-campestre maternal clade
complexSimplex-campestre maternal clade
Isla Socorro moonwort
speciesBotrychium socorrense
Waterton moonwort
hybridBotrychium × watertonense
Toluca Moonwort
speciesBotrychium tolucaense
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55327.