Dryopteris cristata	type		IMAGE
Crested Wood Fern	fern	species

size(ft) 2 cut 2- decid. sterile fronds evergreen garden yes	ID tips Basal pinnae blunt triangles, almost equilateral Dimorphic, fertile fronds narrow with pinnae twisted to horizontal Not quite bipinnate
where . ME NH VT MA RI CT click C C C C C C for key	Comment Tetraploid parent of allohexaploid D. clintoniana Blunt lower pinnae identifiable in sterile hybrids "There is nothing crested about this species and no one knows why Linnaeus assigned this name."
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