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Purple Stem Cliffbrake Fern

Pellaea atropurpurea

Photo by joanbstanley
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Field Notes

Description:

Triangular leaf with purplish-black stem. Leaflets relatively few and large, long oval to blunt triangular.
Sterile fronds have broader leaflets than fertile fronds. Widely distributed in the U.S. but uncommon.

Habitat:

A colony of these ferns are growing out of a limestone cliff above Belton Lake.

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Pellaea atropurpurea

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