Spiny Cliffbrake
This delicate little pteridophyte desert fern was found growing from the shade under a massive pile of boulders in the Chihuahuan Desert at the far eastern limit of its range near the Texas-Chihuahua border just south of El Paso in the Quitman Mountains. It is most often found on cliffs and shady overhangs throughout most of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.
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Chihuahuan Desert, Hudspeth County, P. truncata, Pellaea, Pellaea longimucronata, Pellaea truncata, Plantae, Polypodiales, Polypodiopsida, Pteridaceae, Pteridophyta, Quitman Mountains, Sierra Blanca, Texas, botany, cliff brake, cliffbrake, color, desert, evergreen, fern, forb, green, herb, maidenhair fern, native, natural, nature, perennial, plant, plants, pteridophyte, rest stop, roadside, southwest, spiny, spiny cliff brake, spiny cliffbrake, spring, wild
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