Toothed Wood Fern
Scientific Name:Dryopteris carthusiana
Common Name Synonyms: Spinulose Wood Fern


NOTES: Widespread across the northern hemisphere. Dryopteris species can be identified by the circular-shaped sori that are covered by a translucent tissue (indusium). Semi-evergreen.

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Toothed Wood Fern
Genus species: Dryopteris carthusiana
Common Names: Toothed Wood Fern
Spinulose Wood Fern
Family Name: Dryopteridaceae  
Rhizomes creeping, scaly; leaves various, the petioles with 2-many vascular bundles; sori dorsal on veins or at vein tips, an indusium present in most, linear to reniform to hoodlike or lobed but not marginal; sporangia with annulus complete.
Seed Type: Gymnosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Fern
Identified by:M. Becus
Months in Bloom:  
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