Cinnamon Fern
Scientific Name:Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
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Synonym:Osmunda cinnamomea


NOTES: Wide distribution in North America. Also occurs in South America and Asia.

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Cinnamon Fern
Genus species: Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
     Synonym: Osmunda cinnamomea
Common Name: Cinnamon Fern
Family Name: Osmundaceae  
Rhizomes stout, covered with persistent leaf bases but lacking scales; leaves variously compound, scaleless; sporangia in dense clusters on reduced, stalklike pinnae, these on separate leaves from those bearing sterile pinnae, or in different portions of the leaf; sporangia with annulus incomplete.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
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: Krippendorf Arboretum
Polinator Garden
Identified by:J.D. Mancini

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