Leather Grapefern, Leathery Grapefern
Sceptridium multifidum
Synonyms: Botrychium californicum, Botrychium coulteri, Botrychium multifidum, Botrychium multifidum ssp. silaifolium, Botrychium silaifolium, Osmunda multifida
![Sterile frond of Leather Grapefern, Leathery Grapefern: Sceptridium multifidum (Synonyms: Botrychium californicum, Botrychium coulteri, Botrychium multifidum, Botrychium multifidum ssp. silaifolium Botrychium silaifolium, Osmunda multifida)](../../../cascade/mtadams/fern/botrychium/multifidum/multifidum2a.jpg)
The photo above shows a close-up of the broad leaf of leathery grapefern as seen along the trail to Willard Springs in Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge.........April 13, 2007.
![Fertile frond of Leather Grapefern, Leathery Grapefern: Sceptridium multifidum (Synonyms: Botrychium californicum, Botrychium coulteri, Botrychium multifidum, Botrychium multifidum ssp. silaifolium Botrychium silaifolium, Osmunda multifida)](../../../cascade/mtadams/fern/botrychium/multifidum/multifidum5b.jpg)
The photo above shows the sporophore or fertile frond of leathery grapefern which consists of a panicle of sporangia which will release spores when mature. Photographed at Willard Springs in Conboy Lake NWR........August 17, 2007.
- ![Leather Grapefern, Leathery Grapefern: Sceptridium multifidum (Synonyms: Botrychium californicum, Botrychium coulteri, Botrychium multifidum, Botrychium multifidum ssp. silaifolium, Botrychium silaifolium, Osmunda multifida)](multifidum/multifidum9b.jpg)
Leathery grapefern as photographed at the dry upper edge of moist meadows at an old reservoir about one mile above Olive Lake, Umatilla National Forest..........July 28, 2013.
Paul Slichter