Botrychium lunaria
Botrychium lunaria has a circumpolar distribution in the northern hemisphere. Coming from New England, I think of it as a rare and hard to find species. To my delight, it was extremely abundant around Schynige Platte in the Swiss Alps. Once we spotted one plant we...
Very cool. The abortive bulblet is particularly awesome. What’s the substrate?
cold wet Green Mtn. schist. The notch is interesting because it never gets very warm.
that’s interesting/odd — I think of laurentiana as being pretty much restricted to limestone what with its bulbifera ancestry, but maybe it’s one of those things, like G.robert, that sometimes shows up in weird places
No that is correct. Metamorphic rocks in the Green Mtns. can have fairly high pH. The plant was growing right next to Pinguicula vulgaris which also prefers high-pH bedrock.