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wood fern

NOUN
  1. any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris

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  • The beech ferns are often classed with the polypodies, because, like them, they have no indusium; but in other ways they are more akin to the wood ferns. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
  • The delicate fragile fern and the larger fragrant wood fern nestle in the crevices of the sheer cliff off the northern side of the summit.
  • Although the genus _Polýstichum_ represents the true shield ferns, the wood ferns are also thus designated, as their indusia have nearly the shape of small, roundish shields. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
  • Very precious are two populations of marsh violets: the creeping violet and the fen violet, as well as a whole group of peatbog plants with the mud sedge, round leaf and long leaf sundew, arrowgrass, Buxbaum sundew, and crested wood fern.
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