purple-stem cliffbrake

Pellaea atropurpurea

Summary 2

This is a fern, P. atropurpurea, commonly known as purple-stem cliffbrake or just purple cliffbrake. Brake is an old word for fern, related to the word bracken. Like many other members of the Pteridaceae, it is a rock plant, needing a calcareous substrate.

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  1. (c) Nancye Saunders Drukker, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Nancye Saunders Drukker
  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellaea_atropurpurea

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