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Botrychium lunaria
Botrychium lunaria is a species of fern in the family Ophioglossaceae known by the common name moonwort or common moonwort. It is the most widely distributed moonwort, growing throughout the Northern Hemisphere across Eurasia and from Alaska to Greenland, as well as temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere.
7 branches of this group, most-observed first
common moonwort
speciesBotrychium lunaria
American moonwort
speciesBotrychium neolunaria
scalloped moonwort
speciesBotrychium crenulatum
Botrychium onondagense
speciesBotrychium onondagense
giant moonwort
speciesBotrychium yaaxudakeit
moosewort
speciesBotrychium tunux
Nordic moonwort
speciesBotrychium nordicum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1611685.