T14S.R13E Pima County.AZ 050813 - Arizona Native Plant Society

LISTING OF PLANTSSTRICTLY ENFORCED LAWS PROTECT MANY OF ARIZONA’SNATIVE PLANTS FROM COLLECTION, MUTILATION AND DESTRUCTIONNative Plant Crimes HOTLINE: 602-364-0907Kingdom Plantae: The Plant KingdomSubkingdom Tracheobionta: The Vascular PlantsDivision Pteridophyta: The FernsCLASS FILICOPSIDA: The FERNSPteridaceae: The Maidenhair Fern FamilyAstrolepis cochisensis (L.N. Goodding) D.M. Benham & M.D. Windham subsp. cochisensis: Cochise ScalyCloakfernSYNONYMY: Notholaena cochisensis L.N. Goodding; Notholaena sinuata (M. Lagasca y Segura ex O. Swartz) G.F.Kaulfuss var. cochisensis (L.N. Goodding) C.A. Weatherby. COMMON NAMES: Cloak Fern (Cloak-fern is a name alsoapplied to other species and the genus Astrolepis); Cochise Scaly Cloakfern Cochise’s Cloak Fern; Helechillo (“Little Fern”) 140 ;Jimmy Fern; Jimmyfern; Narrow Cloakfern; Scaly Cloak Fern; Scaly Star Fern. DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial evergreenforb/herb (fronds are 3 to 12 inches in length); the leaf blades are olive green or green above and reddish-brown beneath withbrown to reddish-brown stipes; sporulation generally takes place summer through fall. HABITAT: Within the range of thisspecies it has been reported from mountains; mountainsides; cliffs; bouldery-sandy and rocky canyons; rocky and sandy canyonwalls; talus slopes; bases of cliffs; crevices in rocks; buttes; rocky ledges; rocky and silty-loamy ridges; foothills; hills; rocky andgravelly-loamy hillsides; rocky, stony, gravelly-loamy and clayey-loamy slopes; rocky outcrops; amongst boulders and rocks; onboulders; flats; basins; valley floors; arroyos; rocky draws; along streams; in bouldery streambeds; in rocks along creeks; alongand in sandy washes, and riparian areas growing in dry bouldery, bouldery-sandy, rocky, stony and sandy ground and gravellyloam, clayey loam and silty loam ground, occurring from 1,100 to 8,500 feet in elevation in the woodland, scrub, grassland,desertscrub and wetland ecological formations. NOTES: This plant may be an attractive component of a restored native habitat.Astrolepis cochisensis subsp. cochisensis is native to southwest-central and southern North America. *5, 6, 15 (recorded asNotholaena cochisensis Goodding), 16 (recorded as Notholaena cochisensis Goodding), 28 (recorded as Notholaena cochisensis,color photograph 9), 43 (081009), 44 (031811 - no record of species or subspecies; genus record), 46 (recorded as Notholaenasinuata (Lag.) Kaulf. var. cochisensis (Goodding) Weatherby, Page 41), 51 (recorded as Notholaena cochisensis, Page 155, colorphotograph 171), 63 (081009), 77 (recorded as Notholaena cochisensis Goodd.), 80 (Notholaena sinuata var. cochisensis is listedas a Secondary Poisonous Range Plant. “Apparently only the variety cochisensis is poisonous. The nature of the poison isunknown but it is excreted in the milk and is not destroyed by drying of the plant. Sheep are most susceptible, especially pregnantewes, but goats and cattle may be poisoned. ... The danger is greatest from the middle of November through February when otherforage is dry and the evergreen fern remains succulent and relatively palatable. ... Losses may be prevented by deferring infestedranges during the danger period or by feeding supplements.” See text for additional information.), 85 (082911 - colorpresentation), 89 (reported as being a perrenial herb located on Tumamoc Hill, recorded as Notholaena sinuata (Sw.) Kaulf.), 115(color presentation of species), 122, 124 (031811), 140 (Pages 230 (species) & 303 - recorded as Astrolepis cochisensis(Goodding) D.M. Benham & Windham subsp. cochisensis [Notholaena cochisensis Goodding])*Cheilanthes lindheimeri W.J. Hooker: FairyswordsCanaguala (a name also applied to other species); Fairy Sword; Fairy Swords; Fairy-swords; Fairyswords; Hierba de laPena (“Sorrow Herb”, Spanish: San Luis Potosí); Kalawala; Lindheimer Lip Fern; Lindheimer Lipfern; Lindheimer’s Lip Fern.DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial evergreen forb/herb (fronds are 3 to 13½ inches in length); the leaf blades are gray-greenor light green above with a brown underside and black-brown, purplish-black or dark reddish-brown stipes; sporulation generallytakes place summer through fall. HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been reported from mountains; bouldery,bouldery-rocky-gravelly and rocky mountainsides; rocky mesas; along rocky cliff; rock walls; along rocky bases of cliffs and14