''Anemia mexicana'', the Mexican flowering fern, is a fern species in the genus ''Anemia (plant), Anemia'', sometimes called flowering ferns. It is native to much of Mexico and the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos regions of Texas. The "flowers" are upright fertile fronds that can be mistaken for true flowers.

Description

The fronds of ''Anemia mexicana'' arise at intervals (rather than in a tight clump) from a horizontal rhizome about in diameter, covered with stiff, dark brown hairs. The fronds are upright and are, in total, long, occasionally as short as . About half of that length is the stipe (botany), stipe (the leaf stalk, below the blade), which is about , hairless, and straw-colored.

References

Schizaeales Ferns of Mexico Plants described in 1845 {{Polypodiidae-stub