Wyoming Rare Plant Field Guide
Botrychium campestre
- Similar Species: B. lunaria has broadly fan-shaped, overlapping leaflets. B. simplex has the vegetative leaf segment attached near ground level, well below the middle of the leaf stalk. B. ascendens has broader leaflets and the fertile leaf segment is longer than the vegetative segment.
- Spore-Producing Period: Early spring, dying back in late spring and early summer.
- Distribution: C Alberta to S Iowa, the Wyoming Black Hills (Crook Co.), and northeastern Colorado.
- Habitat: Prairies, dunes, and fields over limestone. Elev. 5000 ft.
- References: Dorn 1992 b; Fertig 1993 b; Lellinger 1985; Wagner and Wagner 1986, 1993.
