Native Plants
Botrychium virginianum
Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.
Rattlesnake Fern
Ophioglossaceae (Adder's-Tongue Family)
USDA Symbol: BOVIUSDA Native Status: L48 (N), AK (N), CAN (N)
Specimen & Label Data
Botrychium virginianum
Rattlesnake Fern
Ophioglossaceae
Location: Medina River Ranch, Gate 10, midway from gate to Knox Miller house.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: In semi-shade, at foot of seeping limestone cliff.
Description: Thin, herbaceous plant from erect rhizome. Fronds several, erect, mon-circinate, 36 cm tall. Stipe 20 cm long, red-brown below, stramineous above. Blade pinnate; pinnae linear-lanceolate, to 1.5x8 cm, serrate. Fruiting spike to 12 cm. Sporangia large, globose, sessile, naked, opening by a slit.
County: Medina
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 6, 1992
Specimen number: 443
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0652
Accession Date: Feb 22, 1994
Accession Number: 48
Annotations: SXFXM
Anemia mexicana Klotzsch Schizaeceae Mexican Fern
det. Harry Cliffe 1997