About Myriopteris lindheimeri (Hook.) J.Sm.
Myriopteris lindheimeri (Hook.) J.Sm. grows in dense colonies from a long, creeping rhizome covered in brown scales. Its leaves are generally lanceolate in shape, measuring 7–30 cm long and 2–5 cm wide, and attached to a dark brown petiole. The leaf blade is 4-pinnate at its base, colored grayish or silvery green on the upper surface, and covered in rusty brown, woolly hairs on the lower surface. The rachis bears scattered linear-lanceolate scales and sparse hairs. Ultimate leaf segments are round to slightly oblong, beadlike, and reach 0.7–1 mm in diameter. The upper surface of leaves typically has a distinctive silvery green tone. This species is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It grows on rocky slopes and ledges across a variety of substrates ranging from acidic to mildly basic, at elevations from 200 to 2500 m. Myriopteris lindheimeri can be cultivated relatively easily. It should be grown under high light in well-drained garden soil that stays dry to moist-dry.
