Marsh Fern
Scientific Name:Thelypteris palustris


NOTES: Native to eastern North America and across Eurasia. Performs best in full sun or light shade in wet to moist, sandy acid soils. Forked veins (leaflets). Deciduous.

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Marsh Fern
Genus species: Thelypteris palustris
Common Name: Marsh Fern
Family Name: Thelypteridaceae  
Rhizomes creeping, scaly; leaves various, often pubescent with ciliate margins and with needlelike trichomes on the rachis; petiole yellowish with 2 vascular bundles; sori dorsal, rounded to reniform; 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
Flower Color:


CNC Habitat: Krippendorf Arboretum
Identified by:J.D. Mancini