View source for Botrychium campestre

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|accepted_name=Botrychium campestre
|accepted_authority=W. H. Wagner & Farrar
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. Fern J.
|place=76: 39, figs. 2, 4, 5. 1986
|year=1986
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|common_names=Prairie moonwort;botryche champètre
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ophioglossaceae;Botrychium;Botrychium subg. Botrychium;Botrychium campestre
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ophioglossaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Botrychium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Botrychium subg. Botrychium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Botrychium campestre]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="trophophore stalk count;trophophore stalk shape;proximal pinna fusion"><b>Trophophore </b>stalk usually absent but sometimes broadly tapered to 10 mm in forms with coalesced proximal pinnae;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="blade coating;blade shape;blade architecture or shape;blade architecture or shape;blade length;blade width;blade texture">blade glaucescent, oblong, longitudinally folded when alive, 1-pinnate, to 4 × 1.3 cm, very fleshy.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="pinna atypical count;pinna count;pinna orientation;pinna arrangement or density;pinna arrangement;pinna width;pinna fusion;basal pinna variability;basal pinna shape;basal pinna shape;basal pinna shape;basal pinna architecture or shape;pair arrangement;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;segment count;segment count;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;midrib count"><b>Pinnae </b>to 5 (–9) pairs, spreading, usually remote, separated 1–3 times pinna width, in some populations irregularly and extensively fused with considerable webbing along rachis, distance between 1st and 2d pinnae not or slightly more than between 2d and 3d pairs, basal pinna pair approximately equal in size and cutting to the adjacent pair, mostly linear to linear-spatulate, undivided to tip, margins crenulate to dentate, usually notched or cleft into 2 or several segments, apex rounded to acute, venation like ribs of fan, midrib absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties=""><b>Sporophores </b>1 (–2, rarely) -pinnate, 1–1.5 times length of trophophore.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="sporophore architecture or shape;sporophore length;2n chromosome count">2n =90.</span><!--

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|habitat=Extremely inconspicuous in prairies, dunes, grassy railroad sidings, and fields over limestone
|elevation=50–1200 m
|distribution=Alta.;Ont.;Sask.;Colo.;Iowa;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;S.Dak.;Wis.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Botrychium campestre is one of four moonwort species that commonly produce dense clusters of minute, spheric gemmae at the root bases. Peculiar forms of B. campestre with coalescent pinnae are found on dunes in the vicinity of Lake Michigan.</p><!--
--><p>Of conservation concern.</p>
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name=Botrychium campestre
|author=
|authority=W. H. Wagner & Farrar
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ophioglossaceae
|habitat=Extremely inconspicuous in prairies, dunes, grassy railroad sidings, and fields over limestone
|elevation=50–1200 m
|distribution=Alta.;Ont.;Sask.;Colo.;Iowa;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;S.Dak.;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. Fern J.
|publication year=1986
|special status=
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|genus=Botrychium
|subgenus=Botrychium subg. Botrychium
|species=Botrychium campestre
|2n chromosome count=90
|apex shape=rounded;acute
|basal pinna architecture or shape=undivided
|basal pinna shape=mostly linear;linear-spatulate
|basal pinna variability=equal
|blade architecture or shape=1-pinnate;folded
|blade coating=glaucescent
|blade length=0cm;4cm
|blade shape=oblong
|blade texture=fleshy
|blade width=0cm;1.3cm
|margin shape=crenulate;dentate usually notched or cleft
|midrib count=absent
|pair arrangement=adjacent
|pinna arrangement=separated
|pinna arrangement or density=remote
|pinna atypical count=5;9
|pinna count=0;5
|pinna fusion=fused
|pinna orientation=spreading
|pinna width=1-3 times pinna width
|proximal pinna fusion=coalesced
|segment count=several;2
|sporophore architecture or shape=1-pinnate
|sporophore length=1-1.5 times length of trophophore
|trophophore stalk count=absent
|trophophore stalk shape=tapered
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