spreading wood fern

Dryopteris expansa

Summary 2

Dryopteris expansa, the alpine buckler fern, northern buckler-fern or spreading wood fern, is a species of fern native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, south at high altitudes in mountains to Spain and Greece in southern Europe, to Japan in eastern Asia, and to central California in North America. The species was first described from Germany. It prefers cool, moist mixed or evergreen forests and rock crevices on alpine slopes,

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  1. (c) Joshua Tewksbury, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Joshua Tewksbury
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryopteris_expansa

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