Male fern
Dryopteris filix-mas
Poisonous plant: do not eat any part of it.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Dryopteris filix-mas
- Group
- Fern
- Order
- Aspleniales
- Family
- Dryopteridaceae
- Continent
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Habitat
- Forest
- Form
- Herb
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- No flowers
- Blooms in
- Never blooms
- Use
- Medicine
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Its young fronds unroll from tight coils called fiddleheads or crosiers.
- Ferns like this one spread by spores, not seeds, made in rows of dots on the underside of the fronds.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q322994 · All plants · All entries