Ok, no need to comment, this is just for me. My dearest and favorite plant. Here in Switzerland it grows only on high altitudes, it’s a rare find and not a lot of people know about it. I was not often in the mountains this summer. Means I have not found yet a Moonwort this year. So today was kind of last chance. And I was lucky,… one only moonwort I found. Already with the signs of autumn and the sporangia clusters are open. But it needs to be in the project.
Interesting for me: Common moonwort (Botrychium lunaria) is not so common and is a species of fern. This very small plant has one fleshy leaf above the surface of the ground. This leaf is about 6 to 8 centimeters tall and is divided into a sterile and a fertile part. The sterile fragment of the leaf has 4 to 9 pairs of fan-shaped leaflets. The fertile part of the leaf is very different in shape, with rounded, grapelike clusters of sporangia by which it reproduces.
