Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Botrychium onondagense Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 47. 1903
Plant slender, 6-24 cm. high ; rhizome slender, erect; bud smooth, entirely enclosed; leaf erect, the commonstalk mostly epigean, 4-12.5 cm. long, the lamina with the tip bent down and clasping the sporophyl in vernation, sessile or with a short stalk, oblong, rounded above, 1.4-8.2 cm. long, 0.9-2.3 cm. broad, once pinnately divided, the divisions distant, fan-shaped, entire or radially incised ; sporophyl 2.8-11 cm. long, with the tip bent down in vernation, the panicle usually lax (scant), 1-2 times divided.
Type locality : Near Split Rock, Onondaga County, New York.
Distribution : On cold wooded slopes. New York to Michigan and Montana ; California (?).
- bibliographic citation
- Lucien Marcus Underwood, Ralph Curtiss BenedictWilliam Ralph Maxon. 1909. OPHIOGLOSSALES-FILICALES; OPHIOGLOSSACEAE, MARATTIACEAE, OSMUNDACEAE, CERATOPTERIDACEAE, SCHIZAEACEAE, GLEICHENIACEAE, CYATHEACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 16(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY