A Field Guide to Ferns: And Their Related Families : Northeastern and Central North America : with a Section on Species Also Found in the British Isles and Western EuropeMore than 500 species of northeastern and central North American ferns are described and illustrated, with helpful details such as color, leaf shapes, measurements, and root forms. An illustrated key aids in quick identification. |
Contents
HOW TO USE THE KEYS IN THIS FIELD GUIDE | 2 |
LIFE CYCLE OF A FERN | 36 |
THE TRUE FERNS | 45 |
Genus Lygodium | 46 |
Genus Gymnocarpium | 78 |
Ebony Spleenwort | 90 |
Mountain Spleenwort | 96 |
Genus Camptosorus | 108 |
Genus Woodsia | 144 |
Genus Cheilanthes | 150 |
Genus Cystopteris | 156 |
Genus Schizaea | 164 |
THE WATER FERNS | 174 |
THE SUCCULENT FERNS | 180 |
THE HORSETAILS OR SCCURING RUSHES | 194 |
THE CLUBMOSSES GROUND PINES OR RUNNING PINES | 214 |
Genus Dennstaedtia | 116 |
Genus Woodwardia | 122 |
Genus Polypodium | 130 |
Genus Pellaea | 136 |
THE SELAGINELLAS OR SPIKEMOSSES | 234 |
FERNS IN THE FLOWER GARDEN by H Lincoln Foster | 249 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 263 |
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Asplenium Athyrium axis base Beech Fern blade blunt-tipped branching brittle brown scales Christmas Fern Cliffbrake Clubmoss common creeping dark brown delicate Diagnostic Arrows Dryopteris Ebony Spleenwort Ecology edges EQUISETUM erect evergreen Fern Allies FERN Species fertile leaflet fertile leaves Fertile subleaflet Fiddleheads fronds Fruitdots gametophytes genus Grape Fern green grooved growing growth form horizontal Horsetail indusia Indusium ISOETES lacy-cut Lady Fern leaf leathery Lipfern lobes lower leaflets Lowest pair LYCOPODIUM Maidenhair Marginalia margins Marsh Fern midrib midvein moist numerous oblong opposite Osmunda pairs of leaflets pale plants pointed tip prominent rare rocky Roots rootstock rounded shaded short similar species slender slightly hairy slightly scaly smooth soil Spikemosses Spinulose Woodfern Spleenwort spores Sporophyll spreading Stalk dark stalks stems sterile leaflet sterile leaves stout Strobilus Style subleaflets tall tapering Thelypteris throughout our area tiny toothed triangular tufts Underside of fertile usually variable widely spaced wiry woods Woodsia woolly