boreal moonwort
Botrychium boreale Milde
Botrychium boreale, known as boreal moonwort, is a fern species in the Ophioglossaceae family. It features a short, upright, single-leaved rhizome. The species was first described in 1857 by Milde.
Description
Botrychium boreale is distributed across several regions including Greenland, Quebec, Iceland, Finland, Japan, Korea, and parts of Russia and Canada. It belongs to the genus Botrychium and is part of the fern family Ophioglossaceae. This species is characterized by its short rhizome with a single leaf that grows upright.
Other common names
boreal moonwortnorthern moonwort
Distribution
Greenland · Quebec · SE · IS · NO · GL · Alberta · Amur · British Columbia · Buryatiya · Central European Rus · Chita · Finland · Iceland · Inner Mongolia · Irkutsk · Japan · Kamchatka · Khabarovsk · Korea · Kuril Is. · Magadan · North European Russi · Norway · Québec · Sakhalin · Sweden · West Siberia
Synonyms
Botrychium brevifoliumBotrychium boreale var. borealeBotrychium crassinerviumBotrychium lunaria var. boreale
