Botrychium -

: Individual plants can exhibit "vegetative dormancy," where they fail to appear for one or more seasons before re-emerging later. Diversity and Taxonomy

: Many species are highly dependent on mycorrhizal fungi (specifically the genus Glomus ) for nutrition, sometimes spending years underground without emerging above the surface. botrychium

: Modern genetic research has revealed that what was once considered a single widespread species, like Botrychium lunaria , is actually a complex of many distinct, often cryptic, species. : Individual plants can exhibit "vegetative dormancy," where