© Graham Day
© Graham Day
Map updated: March 2008
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© Graham Day |
© Graham Day |
Map updated: March 2008 |
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| Species Description: |
| A very common fern of acid situations growing in woodland, shaded hedgebanks or ascending high up mountain ranges on rock outcrops (where it may be stunted and very small). Remarkable for having two sorts of leaf: the normal sterile (food-producing) one which is held more or less horizontally and a fertile, spore-producing one which has much narrower segments and is carried vertically. |
| All names: Blechnum spicant (L.) Roth; Lomaria spicant (L.) Desv. |
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