This Cliff Brake has a triangular-shaped, blue-green frond with up to about 10 pairs of oval-shaped leaflets and can get up to 15" high. ...Read MoreIt grows on cliffs and in rock crevices at an elevation range of 2000-6000 ft. In Arizona it can be found at Watson Lake in Prescott and also in the Superstition Mountains amongst other places.
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Native to Mexico (Baja California and Sonora), and to the south-western United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada,...Read More Texas, and Utah).
From Botanica Encyclopedia: Although hardiness varies with the species, these ferns are generally quite sun tolerant provided they do not...Read More dry out. They will grow in fairly poor soil and oftern thrive in exposed positions and hard clay that would defeat most ferns. Propagate by breaking off rooted pieces of rhizome.
Wildflowers of Tucson, Arizona: Non-Flowering, Fern, Herb, Perennial. Height to 15" tall. The triangular, bipinnately compound fronds are stiff and have varying shades of bluish green, narrowly oval leathery leaflets on dark brown petioles. The sterile fronds are shorter and less divided than the fertile fronds. This desert fern grows in rocky areas, usually in a shadow or crevice of a rock.
This Cliff Brake has a triangular-shaped, blue-green frond with up to about 10 pairs of oval-shaped leaflets and can get up to 15" high. ...Read More
Native to Mexico (Baja California and Sonora), and to the south-western United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada,...Read More
From Botanica Encyclopedia: Although hardiness varies with the species, these ferns are generally quite sun tolerant provided they do not...Read More