Fern Encyclopedia

Polypodium virginianum (Rock Polypody, Rock Cap...

Polypodium virginianum — the Rock Polypody of eastern North America — is one of the continent's most ecologically distinctive and culturally significant ferns. A diploid (2n = 74) evergreen species...

Polypodium virginianum (Rock Polypody, Rock Cap...

Polypodium virginianum — the Rock Polypody of eastern North America — is one of the continent's most ecologically distinctive and culturally significant ferns. A diploid (2n = 74) evergreen species...

Polypodium vulgare (Common Polypody, Wall Fern,...

Polypodium vulgare is Europe's most widespread and historically significant fern, a hardy evergreen epiphyte and lithophyte that grows on stone walls, tree trunks, and rock faces from Scandinavia to North...

Polypodium vulgare (Common Polypody, Wall Fern,...

Polypodium vulgare is Europe's most widespread and historically significant fern, a hardy evergreen epiphyte and lithophyte that grows on stone walls, tree trunks, and rock faces from Scandinavia to North...

Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas Fern)

Polystichum acrostichoides, the Christmas fern, is a clump-forming evergreen fern native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia to the Gulf Coast, thriving in shaded forest understories across USDA zones...

Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas Fern)

Polystichum acrostichoides, the Christmas fern, is a clump-forming evergreen fern native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia to the Gulf Coast, thriving in shaded forest understories across USDA zones...

Polypodium interjectum 'Cornubiense' (Cornish P...

Polypodium interjectum, the Western or Intermediate Polypody, is an allotetraploid fern (2n=148) native to the Atlantic and Mediterranean fringes of Europe, occupying walls, mossy bark, and rocky crevices from Ireland...

Polypodium interjectum 'Cornubiense' (Cornish P...

Polypodium interjectum, the Western or Intermediate Polypody, is an allotetraploid fern (2n=148) native to the Atlantic and Mediterranean fringes of Europe, occupying walls, mossy bark, and rocky crevices from Ireland...

Polypodium cambricum 'Richard Kayse' (Richard K...

Polypodium cambricum — the Southern or Welsh Polypody — is a winter-green, obligate limestone-loving fern of Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe that occupies an unusual and valuable niche in the temperate...

Polypodium cambricum 'Richard Kayse' (Richard K...

Polypodium cambricum — the Southern or Welsh Polypody — is a winter-green, obligate limestone-loving fern of Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe that occupies an unusual and valuable niche in the temperate...

Polypodium glycyrrhiza 'Longicaudatum' (Long-ta...

Polypodium glycyrrhiza, the licorice fern, is the defining epiphytic fern of the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest, cascading from mossed bigleaf maple branches from southeast Alaska to Monterey, California, with disjunct...

Polypodium glycyrrhiza 'Longicaudatum' (Long-ta...

Polypodium glycyrrhiza, the licorice fern, is the defining epiphytic fern of the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest, cascading from mossed bigleaf maple branches from southeast Alaska to Monterey, California, with disjunct...