Index / Search / Botrychium lanceolatum
§1 Plant
Botrychium lanceolatum (S.G. Gmel.) Angstr.
vernacular lanceleaf grapefern — species · Ophioglossaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Fern
- Family
- Ophioglossaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Botrychium
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 152 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.4–6
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 0.9 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Spread rate
- None
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 152 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Fulton 36035
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Rensselaer 36083
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schoharie 36095
- Schuyler 36097
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bradford 42015
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Forest 42053
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BOLA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8231122 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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