Myriopteris gracilis, commonly known as slender lip fern or Fee's lip fern, is a small fern native to western North America, with a few scattered populations in the east. Its leaves grow in clusters and are dissected into beadlike segments, pale green with pale hairs covering the underside. One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was usually classified in the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes feei until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It grows in rocky habitats, usually over limestone.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Fee'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
- Oeosporangium persicum
- Myriopteris parryi
- Myriopteris cooperae
- Myriopteris intertexta
- Myriopteris fendleri
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Genus
- Myriopteris
- Species
- Myriopteris gracilis
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