Asplenium palmeri

This species occurs in the US only in southeastern Arizona and extreme southwestern New Mexico. Like several other Aspleniums, such as Asplenium rhizophyllum, it can form new plants if the prolonged tips of its leaves touch moist soil or rock.

Plant habit in Sycamore Canyon in the Pajarito/Atascosa Mts., 3/19/05.

Abaxial view of pinnae below the Peña Blanca dam in the Pajarito Mts., 3/19/05.