1) Botrychium lunaria 2) Common moonwort 3) Grape fern
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1) Fern
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• (n.) The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty. • (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.
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(from the article `fern`) ...or divided; veins reticulate (netlike) or free; sporangia borne upon unbranched `spike` or many-branched fertile structure arising from base of ... ...has sporangia in two rows near the tip of a usually unbranched, narrow, fertile spike. The genus Botrychium, with about 50 species, distributed ... ...
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(Lunaria) These annuals and perennials are found naturally from Europe to eastern Siberia. They are grown for their pretty flowers and decorative seedpods, called silicles. Lunaria (commonly called Honesty, Money Plant, Moonwort, Satin Flower and Silver Dollars) is derived from
luna,
the moon, and refers to the shape of the seedpods. ...
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Moon'wort` noun (Botany) (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.
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Moonwort (Botrychium lunaria) is a British fen with a curious, characteristic form and habit. It has two branches of its frond, one leafy and the other fertile, the pinnae of the former being fan-shaped or crescent-shaped. The vernation is straight. It is almost a stemless plant.
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n] - of America and Eurasia and Australia
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common moonwort noun of America and Eurasia and Australia
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any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. lunaria, a rare fern having fronds with crescent-shaped leaflets. · honesty (def. 4).
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