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Button Fern
Button Fern
Pellaea rotundifolia
Plantae
RARE

Stats

Lifespan
Perennial
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate forest
Range
New Zealand
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Spores
Defense
Camouflage
Status
Rare

About

Button Fern is a compact New Zealand native whose paired round leaflets—'buttons' lined up along wiry, arching fronds—are unusually drought-tolerant for a fern, letting it thrive in bright indoor spots where most ferns would wilt.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Polypodiopsida
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Pteridaceae
Genus
Pellaea
Species
Pellaea rotundifolia