Gary Fewless
Key to the Ferns
| 30. Ultimate fertile segments nearly round, little if any longer than wide; blades 3-pinnate near base, i.e. each basal pinnae is fully twice pinnate. Mostly near the Mississippi River and in SW counties. | Cheilanthes feei |
| 30. Ultimate fertile segments clearly longer
than wide; blades 2-pinnate near the base, i.e. each basal pinnae is only
once pinnate-pinnatifid. A single WI collection on the St. Croix River.
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Cheilanthes lanosa |
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