Myriopteris covillei, commonly known as Coville's lip fern, is a small fern found in the southwestern United States and on the Baja California peninsula, with an outlying population in southern Oregon. Its leaves grow in clusters and are dissected into beadlike segments; the undersides of the leaf axes are covered with whitish scales that conceal the green tissue of the leaf. One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was usually classified in the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes covillei until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. The species usually grows on or near rocks.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Coville's lip fern being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Myriopteris yavapensis
- Myriopteris intertexta
- Myriopteris wootonii
- Myriopteris clevelandii
- Myriopteris fendleri
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Genus
- Myriopteris
- Species
- Myriopteris covillei
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