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Plant Checklist for the Rocky Mountain National Park


Pteridophytes (Lycophytes and Monilophytes)

Lycophytes

Isoetaceae

• Isoetes bolanderi Engelm., Bolander's quillwort, Native, Common, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Isoetes echinospora Durieu, Spiny-spored quillwort, Synonyms: Isoetes tenella Lιman ex Desv. in part; Isoetes setacea Lam. ssp. muricata (Durieu) Holub, Native, Rare, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Isoetes occidentalis L. F. Hend., Western quillwort, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Lycopodiaceae

• Huperzia haleakalae (Brack.) Holub, Alpine firmoss, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Lycopodium annotinum L., Stiff clubmoss, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Selaginellaceae

• Selaginella densa Rydb., Rocky Mountain spike-moss, Dense clubmoss, Lesser spike-moss, Small clubmoss, Synonyms: Selaginella scopulorum Maxon; S. standleyi Maxon, Native, Common, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Selaginella mutica D.C. Eaton ex Underw., Bluntleaf spike-moss, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Selaginella underwoodii Hieron., Underwood's spike-moss, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants


Monilophytes
Aspleniaceae

• Asplenium septentrionale (L.) Hoffm., Forked spleenwort, Grass fern, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Asplenium trichomanes L., Maidenhair spleenwort, Native, Rare, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Asplenium trichomanes ssp. ramosum L., Green spleenwort, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Athyriaceae

• Athyrium alpestre (Hoppe) Chairv. var. americanum Butters, Alpine lady-fern, Synonyms: Athyrium americanum (Butters) Maxon, Athyrium distentifolium Tausch ex Opiz ssp. Americanum (Butters) Hultιn, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth ex Mert. var. californicum Butters, Common lady-fern, Native, Common, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Azollaceae

• Azolla mexicana C. Presl., Mexican mosquito fern, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Cystopteridaceae

• Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh., Brittle bladder fern, Synonyms: Cystopteris reevesiana Lellinger; Cystopteris tenuis (Michx.) Desv., Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Cystopteris montana (Lam.) Bernh. ex Desv., Mountain bladder fern, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman, Oak fern, Western oak fern, Synonyms: Gymnocarpium dryopteris ssp. disjunctum (Rupr.) Sarvela; Gymnocarpium disjunctum (Rupr.) Ching (?), Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Dennstaedtiaceae

• Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn var. pubescens Underw., Hairy bracken fern, Eagle fern, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Dryopteridaceae

• Dryopteris expansa (C. Presl) Fraser-Jenk. & Jermy, Spreading woodfern, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott, Male Fern, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Polystichum lonchitis (L.) Roth, Northern holly fern, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Equisetaceae

• Equisetum arvense L., Field horsetail, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Equisetum hyemale L. ssp. affine (Engelm.) Calder & R. L. Taylor, Scouring rush horsetail, Perennial scouring-rush, Synonym: Equisetum hyemale L. var. affine (Engelm.) A.A. Eaton, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Equisetum laevigatum A. Braun, Smooth horsetail, Annual scouring-rush, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Equisetum pratense Ehrh., Meadow horsetail, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Equisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F. Weber & D. Mohr, Variegated scouring-rush, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Marsileaceae

• Marsilea vestita Hook. & Grev., Hairy waterclover, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Ophioglossaceae

• Botrychium echo W.H. Wagner, Echo moonwort, Reflected moonwort, Native, Rare, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Botrychium hesperium (Maxon & R.T. Clausen) W.H. Wagner & Lellinger, Western moonwort, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Botrychium lanceolatum (S.G. Gmel.) Εngstrφm, Lanceleaf grapefern, Lance-leaf moonwort, Triangle moonwort, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Botrychium minganense Vict., Mingan Island grape-fern, Mingan moonwort, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Botrychium neolunaria Stensvold & Farra ined., Common moonwort, Previously referred to as. B. lunaria (L.) Swartz, this species is from Canada, Alaska and Greenland (WY), Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Botrychium pinnatum H. St. John, Northern moonwort, Pinnate grape-fern, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Sceptridium multifidum (S.G. Gmel.) M. Nishida ex Tagawa, Leathery grape-fern, Synonym: Botrychium multifidum (S. G. Gmel.) Trevis., Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Polypodiaceae

• Polypodium hesperium Maxon, Western polypody, Native, Ackerfield says only in SW counties of CO. In RMNP?, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Polypodium saximontanum Windham, Rocky Mountain polypody, Synonym: Polypodium amorphum, Native, Unknown, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Pteridaceae

• Argyrochosma fendleri (Kunze) Windham, Fendler's false cloak fern, Synonym: Notholaena fendleri Kunze, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Cheilanthes feei T. Moore, Slender lip fern, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Cheilanthes fendleri Hook., Fendler's lip fern, Synonym: Myriopteris fendleri (Hook.) E. Fourn., Native, Common, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Cryptogramma acrostichoides R. Br., American parsley fern, Cliff brake, Native, Uncommon, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Pellaea atropurpurea (L.) Link, Purple cliff-brake, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Pellaea gastonyi Windham, Gastony's cliff-brake, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Pellaea glabella Mett. ex Kuhn., Smooth cliff-brake, Native, Larimer Co., Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

Woodsiaceae

• Woodsia oregana D.C. Eaton ssp. cathcartiana (B. L. Rob.) Windham, Oregon cliff fern, Oregon woodsia, Western cliff fern, Native, Common, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants

• Woodsia scopulina D.C. Eaton, Rocky Mountain cliff fern, Rocky Mountain woodsia, Native, Common, Photos Phytoimages, USDA_Plants