[False Cloak Ferns, Lace Ferns and Lipferns of the Southwestern Deserts of the United States]

Coville's lip ferns as seen along along Montezuma Valley Road just downhill and south of Culp Valley, several miles southwest of Borrego Springs, CA.......March 29, 2011.

Coville's lipfern growing from a crack between two granitic blocks at the southeastern side of the Granite Mountains (NW of Kelbaker Road) in Mojave National Preserve...........February 25, 2013.

Coville's lipfern as seen at left up Hornbend Canyon off the north side of San Diego County Route S-2 opposite Box Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.........March 26, 2011. The photo at right shows Coville's lipfern with snakeskin lliverwort (Coniocephalum conicum) and Bigelow's spike-moss (Selaginella bigelovii) at Hornbend Canyon off the north side of San Diego County Route S-2 opposite Box Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.........March 29, 2006.