Dryopteris campyloptera

type

IMAGE

Mountain Wood Fern

fern

species

size(ft)

2+

cut

3

decid.

evergreen

garden

yes

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

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MA
RI
CT
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Comment

Not so rare in MA as had been imagined, but seldom reported

Allotetraploid derived from D. expansa and D. intermedia

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