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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Cryptogramma stelleri
 
 
 CLASS:    LEPTOSPORANGIOPSIDA
 ORDER:    FICALES
 FAMILY:   ADIANTACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Cryptogramma stelleri
 AUTHORITY:  (S. G. Gmel.) Prantl
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    SLENDER CLIFFBRAKE
    SLENDER ROCK BRAKE
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: CRST2
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     PRIMARY
       BLUFF
         CLIFF (ROCKY BLUFF)
           LIMESTONE
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   CARROLL         COOK            JO DAVIESS      KANE            LASALLE
   OGLE            ROCK ISLAND     WHITESIDE       WILL            WINNEBAGO
 
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Fern-allies
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)   (rhizomes)
    LEAF TYPE:    Compound  (pinnately)
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire   Crenate   Lobed  (pinnately)
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Ovate
 
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Leaves bipinnate, somewhat dimorphic.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Uncommon
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Found in deep, shaded limestone ravines, cool areas, and springy slopes.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     GROWTH OF SPECIES IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS:
          GRAVEL         No data entered    SAND           No data entered
          SANDY LOAM     No data entered    LOAM           No data entered
          CLAY LOAM      No data entered    CLAY           No data entered
          DENSE CLAY     No data entered    ORGANIC SOIL   No data entered
          NEUTRAL pH     No data entered    ACIDIC SOIL    No data entered
          EXTREMELY ACID No data entered    SALINE SOIL    No data entered
          SODIC SOIL     No data entered    SODIC-SALINE   No data entered
          ROCKY OUTCROPS Good               GENTLE SLOPES  Good
          MODERATE SLOPE No data entered    STEEP SLOPES   No data entered
     HABITAT:   Moist
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     SHOWY FLOWERS:  NO
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:
     WEEDINESS:   Non-weedy
 
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., and D. M. Ladd.  1978.  Distribution of Illinois vascular
     plants.  Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 282 pp.
Jones, G. N.  1963.  Flora of Illinois.  Third ed.  American Midland Naturalist
     Monograph 7.  University of Notre Dame, Indiana.  401 pp.
Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist.  1963.  Manual of vascular plants of north-
     eastern United States and adjacent Canada.  Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.,
     New York.  810 pp.
Fernald, M. L.  1950.  Gray's manual of botany.  8th ed.  American Book Co.,
     New York.  1632 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1986.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Revised and enlarged edition.  Southern Illinois University Press,
     Carbondale.  507 pp.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Cryptogramma stelleri
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015