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Botrypus virginianus subsp. virginianus   (redirected from: Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.)
Family: Ophioglossaceae
[Botrychium anthemoides Presl, moreBotrychium brachystachys Kunze, Botrychium cicutarium (Sav.) Sw., Botrychium dichronum Underw., Botrychium gracile Pursh, Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw., Botrychium virginianum f. gracile (Pursh) Clute, Botrychium virginianum f. intermedium (Butters) Clute, Botrychium virginianum f. laurentianum (Butters) Clute, Botrychium virginianum subsp. meridionale (Butters) R.T. Clausen, Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum , Botrychium virginianum var. cicutarium (Sav.) Clute, Botrychium virginianum var. dichronum Clute, Botrychium virginianum var. intermedium Butters, Botrychium virginianum var. laurentianum Butters, Botrychium virginianum var. meridionale Butters, Botrychium virginianum var. mexicanum Hook. & Grev., Botrychium virginianum var. virginianum , Botrypus cicutaria (Savigny) Holub, Japanobotrychum cicutarium (Sav.) Nishida ex Tag., Japanobotrychum virginianum (L.) Nishida & Tag., Osmunda cicutaria Sav., Osmunda virginiana L., Osmundopteris cicutaria (Sw.) Nishida, Osmundopteris virginiana (L.) Small]
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Warren H. Wagner Jr.
Florence S. Wagner in Flora of North America (vol. 2)
Trophophore sessile; blade pale green, 3--4-pinnate, to 25 × 33 cm, thin, herbaceous. Pinnae to 12 pairs, usually approximate to overlapping, slightly ascending, distance between 1st and 2d pinnae not or slightly more than between 2d and 3d pairs, lanceolate, divided to tip. Pinnules lanceolate and deeply lobed, lobes linear, serrate, apex pointed, venation pinnate, midrib present. Sporophores 2-pinnate, 0.5--1.5(--2) times length of trophophore. 2 n =184. Leaves seasonal, appearing in early spring and dying in late summer. Common to abundant, especially in shaded forests and shrubby second growth, rare or absent in arid regions; 0--1500 m; Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld., N.W.T., N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask., Yukon; all states except Calif.; Mexico; Central America; South America in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru; Eurasia. Botrychium virginianum is the most widespread Botrychium in North America.

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Plants 20-75 cm; bud becoming exposed on one side, its blade and sporophore both reflexed; blade medial or somewhat supramedial, sessile, thin, deciduous, sparingly pilose, deltoid, mostly 7-20 נ10-30 cm, 2-4 times ternate-pinnately compound, the pinnules and segments decurrent, the ultimate segments acutely toothed; sporophore bipinnate or tripinnate, mostly 6-15 cm, on a stalk 7-20 cm; 2n=184. Woods and moist, open places; Nf. and Lab. to Alas., s. to Fla. and Calif.; also in s. Mex. and irregularly in Eurasia. Spring and early summer.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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