Blechnum spicant
| Blechnum spicant | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pteridophyta |
| Class: | Pteridopsida |
| Order: | Athyriales |
| Family: | Blechnaceae |
| Genus: | Blechnum |
| Species: | B. spicant |
| Binomial name | |
| Blechnum spicant (L.) Sm. | |
Blechnum spicant is a species of fern in the family polypodiaceae, known by the common names hard-fern[1] or deer fern. It is native to Europe and western North America. Like some other Blechnum it has two types of leaves. The sterile leaves have flat, wavy-margined leaflets 5 to 8 millimeters wide, while the fertile leaves have much narrower leaflets, each with two thick rows of sori on the underside.
B. spicant is hardy and evergreen, growing to 0.5 m (1 ft 8 in).[2] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[3]
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A sterile leaf
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A fertile leaf with sori
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See also
References
- ↑ "BSBI List 2007" (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ↑ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
- ↑ "RHS Plant Selector - Blechnum spicant". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
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