Myriopteris gracilisFée

slender lipfern

WFO wfo-0001109848 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Myriopteris gracilis, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. a Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 204521481
Myriopteris gracilis, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. b Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204520834
Myriopteris gracilis, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. c Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204531277
Myriopteris gracilis, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. d Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204530475
Myriopteris gracilis, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. e Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204521983
Myriopteris gracilis, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. f Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197764979
Myriopteris gracilis, photographed by Christine Rudman
fig. g Christine Rudman, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187762921
Myriopteris gracilis, photographed by Gordon C. Snelling
fig. h Gordon C. Snelling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167031031

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Where it actually grows measured, from 1,640 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -13.2 °C -6.3 °C 0.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.6 °C 28.7 °C 33.9 °C
Annual rainfall 235 mm 461 mm 1,153 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 26 mm 55 mm 208 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,640 research-grade observations of Myriopteris gracilis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Allosorus vestitus Farw.
  • Cheilanthes feei T.Moore
  • Cheilanthes gracilis (Fée) Riehl ex Mett.
  • Cheilanthes lanosa T.Moore
  • Cheilanthes lanuginosa Nutt. ex Hook.
  • Cheilanthes vestita Hook.
  • Hemionitis feei (T.Moore) Christenh.
  • Myriopteris lanuginosa (Nutt. ex Hook.) J.Sm.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol CHFE. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.