Definition of Moonworts. Meaning of Moonworts. Synonyms of Moonworts

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Definition of Moonworts

Moonwort
Moonwort Moon"wort`, n. (Bot.) (a) The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty. (b) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.

Meaning of Moonworts from wikipedia

- Northern moonwort is a common name for several ferns and may refer to: Botrychium boreale Botrychium pinnatum, native to North America This page is an...
- mycotrophic gametophytes. Moonworts die down at the end of summer, frequently lying dormant for several seasons before re-appearing. Moonwort has a cir****polar...
- plants in the family Ophioglossaceae. Botrychium species are known as moonworts. They are small, with fleshy roots, and reproduce by spores shed into...
- ferns (including leptosporangiates, marattioids, adder's-tongues, and moonworts) class ****topsida (or sometimes as several different classes of seed-bearing...
- of eusporangiate ferns, the families Ophioglossaceae (adder's tongues, moonworts, and grape ferns) and Marattiaceae; and the leptosporangiate ferns. The...
- its discovery in 1982 it was not generally known that Botrychium spp. (moonworts) occurred in prairies. The dominant species found along with this fern...
- Botrychiaceae (moonwort family) was recognized as a segregate family of ferns. The family included the genera Botrychium (the moonworts), Botrypus (the...
- Soldanella alpina, the alpine snowbell or blue moonwort, is a member of the family Primulaceae native to the Alps and Pyrenees. Sanders, Thomas William...
- allied to (and often included as a subgenus of) the genus Botrychium (the moonworts and grapeferns). It is also closely related to the genus Botrypus (the...
- Marattiaceae), the horsetails (Equisetiidae, Equisetaceae), and whisk ferns and moonworts. There are approximately 8465 species of living leptosporangiate ferns...