Dryopteris campyloptera (Mountain wood fern)

Dryopteris campyloptera Clarkson

Mountain wood fern

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Pteridophyta	Ferns
Class	Filicopsida	“Leptosporangiate” (has to do with how their spores form) ferns—includes most ferns
Order	Polypodiales	Polypod ferns
Family	Dryopteridaceae	Wood ferns (about 70% of the ferns)
Genus	Dryopteris	From Greek dryas, “oak,” and pteris, “fern,” in reference to the presence of some species of wood ferns in woodland areas populated with oaks
Species	campyloptera

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Dryopteris austriaca (Jacq.) Woynar ex Schinz & Thell.

Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F. Müll.) Watt var. americana (Fisch. ex Kunze) Fernald

Dryopteris campyloptera description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 25 May 2020.

9/14/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts
≈ 14 × 10" (34 × 26 cm)

5/22/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts
≈ 31 × 21" (78 × 52 cm)

1/19/2021 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts

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