Beginner Gardening: Grape fern, 1 by gardentallahass

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I thought you enjoy seeing a rare plant..I have here in the swamp.
Grape Fern
Sceptridium
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Sceptridium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Pteridophyta

Class: Psilotopsida

Order: Ophioglossales

Family: Botrychiaceae

Genus: Sceptridium
Lyon
Species
Sceptridium dissectum
Sceptridium jenmannii
Sceptridium multifidum
Sceptridium oneidense
Sceptridium rugulosum
Sceptridium subbifoliatum


Sceptridium is a genus of seedless vascular plants, closely allied to (and previously often included in) the genus Botrychium (the moonworts) and also closely related to the genus Botrypus (the rattlesnake fern). They are commonly called the grape-ferns.

These plants are small with fleshy roots, and reproduce by spores shed into the air. They differ from the moonworts in having at least some sterile fronds (all fronds in Botrychium are spore-bearing), and in the fronds being bi- or tri-pinnate (Botrychium are single pinnate, or rarely bipinnate); and from Botrypus in being evergreen, or at least winter-green (Botrypus are deciduous) and having the non-spore-bearing part of the frond long-stalked (short-stalked in Botrypus).