Species: Dryopteris filix-mas
Male Fern
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Filicinophyta
Class
Filicopsida
Order
Filicales
Family
Dryopteridaceae
Genus
Dryopteris
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
dryoptère fougère-mâle - male fern
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Ferns and relatives
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Filicinophyta - Filicopsida - Filicales - Dryopteridaceae - Dryopteris - May be composed of at least two closely related taxa. In North America, plants in the northeast and midwest differ morphologically, ecologically, and possibly genetically from plants in the Rocky Mountains (FNA 1993).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2002-08-27
Global Status Last Changed
1984-04-24
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Circumboreal. In North America it occurs in largely disjunct populations in southern Greenland, western North America from British Columbia to Saskatchewan south to California and Texas, and northeastern North America from Ontario to Newfoundland south to Illinois and Maine (Cody and Britton 1985, Kartesz 1999). Dryopteris filix-mas is widespread in Europe but elsewhere its range is much disrupted (Cody and Britton 1985).