Myriopteris rufa, commonly known as Eaton's lip fern, is a small to medium-sized fern of Mexico and the southwestern United States, with outlying populations in Costa Rica and the Appalachian Mountains. The leaf is about three times divided into oblong or round bead-like segments, which are covered in a thick mat of reddish-brown hair below and are variably hairy above. Broad scales on the leaf axis distinguish it from woolly lip fern (M. tomentosa). One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was usually classified in the genus Cheilanthes, as Cheilanthes eatonii, until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Eaton's lipfern 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
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Genus
- Myriopteris
- Species
- Myriopteris rufa
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