Cystopteris laurentiana
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Cystopteridaceae
- Genus: Cystopteris Bernh.
- Species: Cystopteris laurentiana (Weath.) Blasdell
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 17-VI-2015
- Primary collector: M. Sundue - W. Testo - M. Lehnert
- Collected by: M. Sundue - W. Testo - M. Lehnert
- Habitat: Deciduous forest
- Habit: Lithophyte
Collection Location
- General location: Smuggler's Notch Mt. Mansfield
- Country: United States
- State or Province: Vermont
- City: Cambridge
- Coordinates: ,
- Elevation: 2000 ft.
About the Author
Michael Sundue
My field work is centered in Colombia, and Papua New Guinea. I am based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E). If you have any ferns that you want identified, please send them to me!
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.