Common polypody
Polypodium vulgare
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Polypodium vulgare
- Group
- Fern
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Polypodiaceae
- Continent
- Europe, Asia, Africa
- Habitat
- Forest
- Form
- Herb
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Flower colour
- No flowers
- Blooms in
- Never blooms
- Use
- No special use
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Its name comes from Greek words for 'many feet', after the branching creeping stem.
- Its round spore clusters have no protective cover, unlike those of many other ferns.
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- Bracken
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- Field horsetail
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- Male fern
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q743883 · All plants · All entries