Dryopteris campyloptera
type
Mountain Wood Fern
fern
species
size(ft)
cut
decid.
garden
ID tips
One of the "fancy" wood ferns
Wider, less erect, yellower than D. intermedia or carthusiana
On lowest pinnae, interior lower pinules much longer and wider than those adjacent, and displaced from from opposite upper pinnules
where .
ME
NH
Comment
Not so rare in MA as had been imagined, but seldom reported
Allotetraploid derived from D. expansa and D. intermedia