Dryopteris carthusiana
Narrow buckler-fern
How do you recognise narrow buckler-fern?
A fern whose frond stalk is about as long as the blade and covered in pale brown, broadly ovate scales. The blade is divided several times over, which gives it a very finely cut look.
What is it confused with?
The wood ferns resemble one another closely and hybridise, so the species is worth confirming in a flora. The colour of the stalk scales and how finely the blade is divided are the best marks.
Where does narrow buckler-fern grow, and when does it flower?
Spinulose wood fern favours mesic, moist and boggy heath forest, groves, hummocks in spruce mires, boggy rock, and rock crevices.
Can you collect it for a herbarium?
Spinulose wood fern is a common fern, and one frond is enough. A large frond is best folded carefully into the press. Poisonous. Look, do not touch.
Did you know?
Ferns neither flower nor set seed but reproduce by spores, which ripen in brown clusters on the underside of the frond. A young frond unrolls in spring from a tight coil.
Where does narrow buckler-fern grow in Finland?
The map shows where the species has been recorded. Darker squares mean more observations.
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Observations: GBIF ยท Map: CARTO, OpenStreetMap
Sources: fi.wikipedia.org
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