botanyshitposts:

paleiobotanicalbackwardslicorice:

botanyshitposts:

botanyshitposts:

so i was on my uni’s herbarium website and i saw they were doing a project on something called a ‘moonwort’. ive heard about liverworts, hornworts, and quillworts, and they all seem super wild, so i looked it up and 

excuse me

apparently its a species of fern that grows from a tuber and reappears each year and oh my god…..its so cute…..its just so fucking cute 

there are a few different species, but the common species is called Botrychium lunaria and they live in swamps……im obsessed lads

@chase-prairie i am not disappointed 

@botanyshitposts

For your delectation and consideration, the dehisced sporophyll of a Botrychium at one of my university’s lawns, that also happen to be infested with Spiranthes and Ophioglossum, implying it to be an unusually fungi-rich lawn,

There’s also a small colony of female Marchantia, which is neat.

if you see Marchantia in any form in the wild you are blessed automatically