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Triangle Grape Fern (Lance-leaved Grape Fern)
Botrychium lanceolatum
• Family: Ophioglossaceae
• Habitat: moist woods, edges of swamps
• Height: 3-12 inches
• Location of spores: separate fertile portion of frond, which branches from the sterile portion at the base of the blade
• Stipe (leaf stalk): greenish, smooth, fleshy
• Growth pattern: single leaf
• Persistence: deciduous
This is the same fern viewed from above.