(8) Mountain Spleenwort. Asplenium Montanum
Fronds ovate-lanceolate from a broad base, two to eight inches long, somewhat leathery, pinnate. Pinnæ ovate-oblong, the lowest pinnately cleft into oblong or ovate cut-toothed lobes, the upper ones less and less divided. Rachis green, broad, and flat.
Small evergreen ferns of a bluish-green color, growing in the crevices of rocks and cliffs. Connecticut to Ohio, Kentucky, Arkansas and southwest. July. Rare. Williams, in his “Ferns of Kentucky,” says of this species, “Common on all sandstone cliffs and specimens are large on sheltered rocks by the banks of streams.”