Description ²

• Fiddleheads: emerge in spring, light green, covered in papery tan scales
• Fronds: 10 to 28 inches long, 2 to 5 inches wide, narrowly lance-like to oblong in outline, tapering at tip, once-compound, leaflets with 6+ pairs of lobes with bristly tipped teeth, lower leaflets triangular in outline and about twice as long as wide
• Spores: group of spores (sori) on underside of fertile leaves, yellowish, turning dark brown at maturity, sori circular and found halfway between mid-vein and leaflet edge, translucent tissue (indusium) partly covers spores and is attached on inner curve
• Fruiting season: Late spring - summer
• Height: 10-28 inches
• Habitat: swamps, marshes, moist to wet woods

Fontes e Créditos

1. (c) Natural England, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturalengland/6149796398/
2. (c) Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA)

Mais informações

• BioDiversity4All taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• NBN Atlas
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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