USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region - SCP: Ferns and Fern Allies Evaluation Index

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Species Conservation Program: Species Evaluation Index — Ferns and Fern Allies

Species occurrence on National Forest System units as portrayed by these tables is based on limited information available to evaluators at the time of preparation of species evaluations. Because these evaluations were intended to be sketches and not exhaustive, and because distribution information for many species is inadequate, the accuracy of these location tables cannot be ensured. Therefore, users must assume the responsibility of verifying that this information is accurate for individual forests.

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Recommendation: R2 Sensitive Species (SS)
Common Name	Scientific Name
trianglelobe moonwort	Botrychium ascendens
Iowa moonwort #1 \| #2	Botrychium campestre
forkleaved moonwort	Botrychium furcatum
narrowleaf grapefern	Botrychium lineare
peculiar moonwort	Botrychium paradoxum
groundcedar	Lycopodium complanatum
club spikemoss #1 \| #2	Selaginella selaginoides
Recommendation: Not R2 Sensitive Species, But Should Be Considered For Other Emphasis Species Lists
Common Name	Scientific Name
common maidenhair #1 \| #2 \| #3	Adiantum capillus-veneris
forked spleenwort #1 \| #2 \| #3	Asplenium septentrionale
maidenhair spleenwort #1 \| #2	Asplenium trichomanes
brightgreen spleenwort #1 \| #2	Asplenium trichomanes-ramosum
alpine ladyfern #1 \| #2	Athyrium americanum
common ladyfern #1 \| #2 \| #3	Athyrium filix-femina
common moonwort #1 \| #2	Botrychium lunaria
Mingan moonwort #1 \| #2	Botrychium minganense (B. lunaria ssp. minganense, B. lunaria var. minganense)
leathery grapefern	Botrychium multifidum
pale botrychium	Botrychium pallidum
rattlesnake fern #1 \| #2 \| #3	Botrychium virginianum (B. virginianus ssp. europaeus)
fragile rockbrake #1 \| #2	Cryptogramma stelleri
spinulos woodfern	Dryopteris carthusiana (D. spinulosa)
spreading woodfern #1 \| #2	Dryopteris expansa
dwarf scouringrush #1 \| #2	Equisetum scirpoides
woodland horsetail #1 \| #2	Equisetum sylvaticum
western oakfern #1 \| #2	Gymnocarpium dryopteris (Dryopteris disjuncta)
stiff clubmoss	Lycopodium annotinum
sensitive fern #1 \| #2 \| #3	Onoclea sensibilis
northern adderstongue	Ophioglossum pusillum
Brewer's cliffbrake	Pellaea breweri
Gastony's cliffbrake #1 \| #2	Pellaea gastonyi
smooth cliffbrake #1 \| #2	Pellaea glabella ssp. simplex (P. glabella var. simplex, P. suksdorfiana)
Wright's cliffbrake	Pellaea wrightiana (P. ternifolia var. wrightiana)
Rocky Mountain polypody #1 \| #2	Polypodium saximontanum
northern hollyfern	Polystichum lonchitis
bluntleaf spikemoss #1 \| #2	Selaginella mutica
Underwood's spikemoss #1 \| #2	Selaginella underwoodii
eastern marsh fern #1 \| #2	Thelypteris palustris
New Mexico cliff fern	Woodsia neomexicana
Recommendation: Not R2 Sensitive Species and Not of Concern
Common Name	Scientific Name
northern maidenhair	Adiantum pedatum
reflected grapefern	Botrychium echo
variegated scouringrush #1 \| #2 \| #3	Equisetum variegatum (E. variegatum var. variegatum, Hippochaete variegata)
tree groundpine	Lycopodium dendroideum
purple cliffbrake #1 \| #2 \| #3	Pellaea atropurpurea
western polypody #1 \| #2	Polypodium hesperium
northern selaginella #1 \| #2 \| #3	Selaginella rupestris
Recommendation: Insufficient Information Available to Make a Recommendation
Common Name	Scientific Name
Aleutian maidenhair #1 \| #2	Adiantum aleuticum (A. pedatum ssp. calderi)
scalloped moonwort	Botrychium crenulatum
western moonwort #1 \| #2	Botrychium hesperium
lanceleaf grapefern	Botrychium lanceolatum var. lanceolatum (Botrychium lanceolatum ssp. lanceolatum)
northern moonwort #1 \| #2	Botrychium pinnatum (B. boreale ssp. obtusilobum)
little grapefern #1 \| #2	Botrychium simplex
mountain bladderfern	Cystopteris montana
water horsetail #1 \| #2	Equisetum fluviatile
spiny-spore quillwort	Isoetes tenella (I. setacea ssp. muricata, I. echinospora, I. echinospora ssp. muricata, I. muricata)
stiff clubmoss	Lycopodium dubium (L. annotinum, L. annotinum var. pungens)
Watson's spikemoss	Selaginella watsonii