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Name: Pellaea
truncata Common Name: Spiny Cliffbrake Flower Color: Non-flowering Plant Type: Fern, Herb, Perennial Height: To 15 inches (38.1 cm) tall Date Observed: April 9, 2005 & September 5, 2004 Notes: The triangular, bipinnately compound fronds are stiff and have varying shades of bluish green, narrowly oval, leathery leaflets on dark brown petioles. The sterile fronds are shorter and less divided than the fertile fronds. This desert fern grows in rocky areas, usually in a shadow or crevice of a rock. |
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