Northwestern Moonwort
Botrychium pinnatum
Identification 2
"Botrychium pinnatum is the only pinnate-pinnatifid to twice pinnate moonwort of the western contiguous United States that is not somewhat to highly glaucous. Rather, it has a highly lustrous surface similar to that of B. lanceolatum. Also unlike most allotetraploids having B. lanceolatum as one parent, the sporophore of B. pinnatum is regularly pinnate whereas the sporophore of similar species has a
tendency to divide ternately into three large branches as it does in B. lanceolatum. Plants vary greatly in size with upper pinnae tending to be undivided in small plants, but all may be recognized by the above characters." - Iowa State University
http://www.herbarium.iastate.edu/botrychium/B-pinnatum.pdf
Height / Width 2
Height: 3-12cm
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- (c) Jason Grant, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jason Grant
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More Info
- iNat taxon page
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- Calflora
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- eFloras.org
- Flora of North America (beta)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- Jepson eFlora
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- USDA PLANTS database
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