 That plant was shown to be sister to all other Botrychioids, including "B. virginianus", so must be segregated in its own genus.This is a wide-ranging species.It abounds in many parts of the United States, in the mountains of Mexico, in Australia, in some parts of Asia, as the Himalaya Mountains, and is found also in Norway, in the Karelia region of Finland and Russia, and around Gulf of Bothnia, although in no other part of Europe.