Asplenium viride
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.
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 463β2250 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.
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