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Asplenium viride

Green spleenwort

Green spleenwort is a small, tufted fern of damp limestone and other lime-rich rock in the mountains of Europe, northern Asia and northern and western North America. It looks like maidenhair spleenwort, but its leaf stalks and midribs are green rather than dark brown. It is a fully hardy alpine that needs a cold winter, so it belongs in a shaded rock garden, an alpine trough or a crevice, not a warm room.

At home, aim for
Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows on rock (lithophyte)

Where it grows wild

It grows in crevices and ledges of damp calcareous rock, such as limestone, dolomite and base-rich schist. It is usually found on shaded or cool, moist cliff faces and scree in mountain country.

The 132 records with an elevation span 463–2250 m, median 1073 m, mostly in the Alps. In Britain and Scandinavia it comes lower, because the climate there is cooler at the same height.

Europe (Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, Balkans, Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Iceland)Caucasus, TΓΌrkiye, Iran and Central Asia to the Himalaya, Tibet and ChinaSiberia, Russian Far East and JapanAlaska, Canada and the northern and western United StatesGreenland and Morocco

πŸ”’ Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

βœ“ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
βœ“ Humidity band, and how to hold it
βœ“ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
βœ“ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
βœ“ Substrate and airflow
βœ“ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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