Asplenium viride Huds.

green spleenwort

Cool calcareous rock. A northern species reaching us only in the northern part of the state.

Fern

Perennial

Vascular

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Linnaeus originally published this taxon as Asplenium "Trich. ramosum". For that reason Lellinger (1981) followed by others (e.g. Wagner et al. [1993] and Mitchell and Tucker [1997]) have taken up the name A. trichomanes-ramosum. The Vienna Code (article 23.8 ex. 19, McNeill et al. 2006) considers the name Asplenium trichomanes-ramosum L. to be invalid and to be replaced by the name A. ramosum L. Asplenium ramosum has been officially rejected (see Zimmer 1999). So the long used name A. viride Huds. now has priority.

Native Endangered-State UPL, FACU (NWPL) S1 (State Rank) G4 (Global Rank)

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