Species: Gymnocarpium dryopteris
Northern Oak Fern
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Filicinophyta
Class
Filicopsida
Order
Filicales
Family
Dryopteridaceae
Genus
Gymnocarpium
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Western Oakfern - gymnocarpe du chêne - western oakfern
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Ferns and relatives
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Filicinophyta - Filicopsida - Filicales - Dryopteridaceae - Gymnocarpium - Excludes Gymnocarpium appalachianum and G. disjunctum, treated in older works as Gymnocarpium dryopteris. Kathleen Pryer and colleagues have shown that G. dryopteris is an allotetraploid hybrid derivative of these two other diploid species (cf. FNA). LEM 14Jun00.
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1986-05-23
Global Status Last Changed
1986-05-23
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Circumboreal, extending south to Oregon, Arizona, Iowa, and Virginia.<br>