English name: Green Spleenwort
Gaelic name: Ur-thalmhainn

Atlas of Ferns:
Post 1950 records: NG32, 33, 44-47, 51-53, 60-62, 72.

British Pteridophyte Records:
BPS Bulletin Volume 2, Number 1, (1979): NG54 C. W. Murray.
The Fern Gazette Volume 12, Part 5, (1983): NG26 H. J. B. Birks.

Botanist in Skye: NG26, 32, 33, 44-47, 51, 52, 55, 60-62, 72.

New Atlas records:
1950-1969: NG33, 46.
1970-1986: NG26, 43.
1987-1999: NG32, 44, 45, 51, 52, 61, 62, 72.

Altitude distribution on Skye
Minimum: 20m.
Maximum: 490m.

Asplenium viride occurs on limestone pavements above 100m with A. scolopendrium and Cystopteris fragilis. At higher altitudes (above 300m) on Jurassic limestone outcrops in Coire Uaigneach, Blà Bheinn, and on the calcareous cliffs of Sgùrr Mor, The Storr and the Quirang it occurs with A. trichomanes and Polystichum lonchitis. In Rodwell (ed.) (2000) it occurs in the OV40 community. In Birks (1973) it occurs in the Alchemilleto-Agrosto-Festucetum, Asplenium trichomanes - Fissidens dubius, Saxifragetum aizoidis and Sedum rosea-Alchemilla glabra Associations and as a part of the Limestone Pavement Community.