Tassel Fern
Scientific Name:Polystichum polyblepharum


NOTES: Native to Japan and southern Korea. Evergreen.

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Tassel Fern
Genus species: Polystichum polyblepharum
Common Name: Tassel 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
Nonnative
Category:Fern
CNC Habitat: Herb Wall
Identified by:J.D. Mancini