Clinton’s Woodfern
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Dryopterdaceae
Genus: Dryopteris
Species: D. clintoniana
General Characteristics: Clinton's Wood Fern is a large, leathery, bluish-green-colored fern with leaflets that ascend up the stem in a ladder-like formation. The lowest pair of leaflets are each shaped as a broad-based triangle. Fronds are up to 20 cm wide, 90 - 135 cm long, and are "lanceolate", meaning they are lance-shaped with a long, tapered apex and a short, tapered base. The fronds are also deeply "bipinnatifid", meaning that the leaflets and subleaflets (also called "pinnules") are both deeply lobed. The lower stem is 2 - 4 mm thick and covered with numerous darkish 1-cm long scales. The fruit dots along the back of the fertile subleaflets occur in pairs of 3 - 7 and are borne near the mid-vein.
The fruit dots along the back of the fertile subleaflets occur in pairs of 3 - 7 and are borne near the mid-vein.Trees For Sale
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