Asplenium viride

Grows on limy rocks in cool locations. From GoBotany "Green spleenwort ... has a green rachis (midrib), which distinguishes [it] from the more common and closely-related maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes), which has a red-brown to nearly black rachis.”

Mentioned in Solidago

Plant Information

Common Name(s): 
green spleenwort
Type: 
Native
Ferns & Fern Allies
Status: 
Critically imperilled (S1)/endangered NYS

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