Male Fern
Scientific Name:Dryopteris filix-mas


NOTES: Native to the western mountains of North America, around the Great Lakes, and in Europe and Asia. Dryopteris species can be identified by the circular-shaped sori that are covered by a translucent tissue (indusium). Deciduous.

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Male Fern
Genus species: Dryopteris filix-mas
Common Name: Male 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
CNC Habitat: Herb Wall
Identified by:J.D. Mancini

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