This northeastern taxon may not be clearly distinct from dissectum (W. Hauk cited in W), and has been called "embarrassingly transitional" to the more northern (circumboreal) multifidum (F). In Ky. the only record is a coll. of M. Medley (for WKY) in 1978 from a grassy bald on the summit of Big Black Mt. (HARL). However, the site was later bulldozed (Cranfill 1980); and the coll. remains unprocessed or lost.