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Order Polypodiales, Suborder: Aspleniineae, Family Cystopteridaceae, Genu Cystopteris
This beautiful fern is quite common in our area, which includes a lot of granite outcrops. For more information please go to Wikipedia and Southwest Colorado wildflowers.
These peculiar little bunches on the underside of the fern leaf are "sori," which contain the sporangia, in which the spores develop.