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'''Moonworts''' are seedless [[vascular plant]]s of the genus '''''Botrychium''''', ''sensu stricto''. They are small, with fleshy [[root]]s, and reproduce by [[spore]]s shed into the air. One part of the leaf is sterile and fernlike, the other fertile and carrying the clusters of sporangia or spore cases. Some species only occasionally emerge above ground and gain most of their nourishment from an association with mycorrhizal [[fungus|fungi]]. They are unusual among [[tracheophyte]]s ("higher plants") in that at least some species produce the [[sugar]] [[trehalose]].
The circumscription of ''Botrychium'' is disputed between different authors; some botanists include the genera ''[[Botrypus]]'' and ''[[Sceptridium]]'' within ''Botrychium'', while others treat them as distinct. The latter treatment is provisionally followed here.
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Botrychium (Greek, in allusion to the grape-like sporangia). Ophioglossaceae. A genus of mostly temperate plants allied to ferns, with fleshy roots, short underground sts., each of which bears a single free- veined lf., consisting of a short petiole, a usually triangular, divided blade, and a single erect panicle bearing the fleshy sporangia.
Botrychium (Greek, in allusion to the grape-like sporangia). Ophioglossaceae. A genus of mostly temperate plants allied to ferns, with fleshy roots, short underground sts., each of which bears a single free- veined lf., consisting of a short petiole, a usually triangular, divided blade, and a single erect panicle bearing the fleshy sporangia.
==Varieties==
==Varieties==
[[Image:BotrychiumLunarioidesMar03.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Botrychium lunarioides]]'' in beech/oak forest in northern Florida; March 2003.]]
The circumscription of ''Botrychium'' is disputed between different authors; some botanists include the genera ''[[Botrypus]]'' and ''[[Sceptridium]]'' within ''Botrychium'', while others treat them as distinct. The latter treatment is provisionally followed here.
* ''[[Botrychium acuminatum]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – pointed moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium ascendens]]'' <small>[[W.H.Wagner]]</small> – upswept moonwort, triangle-lobed moonwort, upward-lobed moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium australe]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}}
* ''[[Botrychium boreale]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – northern moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium campestre]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – prairie moonwort, prairie dunewort
* ''[[Botrychium crenulatum]]'' <small>[[W.H.Wagner]]</small> – crenulate moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium hesperium]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – western moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium lanceolatum]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – lance-leaved grapefern, triangle moonwort, triangle grapefern
* ''[[Botrychium lineare]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – narrow-leaved grapefern
* ''[[Botrychium lunaria]]'' <small>([[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]) [[Olof Swartz|Sw.]]</small> – common moonwort, grapefern moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium lunarioides]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}}
* ''[[Botrychium matricariifolium]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – daisy-leaved moonwort, matricary grapefern, matricary moonwort, chamomile grapefern
* ''[[Botrychium minganense]]'' <small>[[Marie-Victorin|Victorin]]</small> – mingan's moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium montanum]]'' <small>[[Warren H. Wagner|W.H.Wagner]]</small> – mountain moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium mormo]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – little goblin moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium paradoxum]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – peculiar moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium pedunculosum]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – stalked moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium pinnatum]]'' <small>[[Harold St. John|H. St.John]]</small> – northern moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium pseudopinnatum]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – false northwestern moonwort, false daisy-leaved grapefern
* ''[[Botrychium simplex]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – little grapefern, least moonwort, least grapefern
* ''[[Botrychium socorrense]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}}
* ''[[Botrychium spathulatum]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}} – spatulate moonwort, Spoon-leaved moonwort
* ''[[Botrychium ternatum]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}}
* ''[[Botrychium tunux]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}}
* ''[[Botrychium × watertonense]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}}
* ''[[Botrychium yaaxudakeit]]''{{Verify source|date=November 2007}}
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The only British species is the ''Botrychium lunaria'' ('moonwort'), a little plant pretty frequent in dry mountain pastures. About a dozen species occur in the United States, ''Botrychium lunaria'' ranges from [[Colorado]] to [[New England]], [[Lake Superior]], and sparingly northward. ''Botrychium simplex'', a rare species, with small fronds, is found from [[California]] and [[Yellowstone National Park|Yellowstone Park]] to Lake Superior and eastward. ''Botrychium lanceolatum'' ranges from Colorado to Lake Superior, [[Ohio]], [[New Jersey]], and New England. ''Botrychium lunarioides'' is found from [[Massachusetts]] to [[Florida]] in dry, rich woods and shady pastures. ''Botrychium ternatum'' occurs throughout [[North America]].
[this is pretty useless information, as it deals with Botrychium sensu lato, and only from a USUK perspective.]
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==Gallery==
==Gallery==