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Alpine lady-fern Athyrium distentifolium: Native Lady-fern Athyrium filix-femina: Native Newman's lady-fern Athyrium flexile: Native Dickie's bladder-fern Cystopteris dickieana: Native Brittle bladder-fern Cystopteris fragilis: Native Mountain bladder-fern Cystopteris montana: Native Oak fern Gymnocarpium dryopteris: Native Limestone fern
Vandenboschia speciosa, synonym Trichomanes speciosum, [2] commonly known as the Killarney fern, [3] is a species of fern found widely in Western Europe.It is most abundant in Ireland, Great Britain, Brittany, Galicia, Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores, but is also found in other locations including France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. [4]
List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland (ferns and allies) covers ferns and allies (Lycopodiopsida, Equisetopsida and Pteridopsida) List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland (conifers) covers the conifers ; The remaining parts cover the flowering plants (Magnoliopsida):
Athyrium filix-femina, the lady fern or common lady-fern, is a large, feathery species of fern native to temperate Asia, Europe, North Africa, Canada and the US. [1] It is often abundant (one of the more common ferns) in damp, shady woodland environments and is often grown for decoration.
The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients, and in having life cycles in which the branched sporophyte is the dominant phase.
Also, any fern of the genus Botrychium. Motherwort - A herb, Leonurus cardiaca, of the mint family, Lamiaceae. Also, mugwort. Mountain spiderwort - Lloydia serotina. Mudwort - Limosella aquatica, found growing in muddy places. Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris. Mulewort - Any plant of the genus Hemionitis. Nailwort - Any species of Paronychia.
The UK distribution of the former is confined to Angus, Perthshire, Argyll and north Wales, and of the latter to Angus, the Moffat Hills, north Wales and two locations in England. The plants were first identified as separate species by John Bolton in 1785 and came under severe threat from Victorian fern collectors in the mid 19th century. [ 68 ]
It is known as the narrow buckler-fern in the United Kingdom, [2] and as the spinulose woodfern in North America. [ 3 ] It is a tetraploid of hybrid origin, one parent being Dryopteris intermedia , known in North America as the intermediate wood fern, and an unknown, apparently extinct species dubbed Dryopteris semicristata , which is also the ...