Fee's Lip Fern Myriopteris gracilis Brake family (Pteridaceae)
Slender Lipfern (Myriopteris gracilis) has small leaf from one-to-five inches long and one-half-to-two inches wide, but the produce numerous leaves thus making the plant easy to find. The leaves are densely hairy. New leaves are light green; older leaves are dark green with some drying and dying red. The plant was first collected for science by the eminent botanist George Engelmann in Hillsboro, Missouri, around 1850.
Tufted ferns 3-6" tall from short . from 1-3" long, brown to purple-brown, sparsely hairy, with tawny, spreading hairs. 3 to 4 times , to triangular in outline, 1-5" long, to 2" wide, densely white or brown hairy beneath, green or only sparsely long-hairy above. 5-12 pairs ultimate segments small. Margins loosely inrolled, spread over the back of the .
