Anemia mexicana, the Mexican flowering fern, is a fern species in the genus 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 multiple intervals (rather than in a tight clump) from a horizontal rhizome about in diameter, covered with many stiff, dark brown hairs. The fronds are upright and straight. They are, in total, between long, occasionally as short as . About half of that length is the stipe (the leaf stalk, below the blade), which is about , hairless, and straw-colored.
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