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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Ferns
  5. Polypodiales
  6. Marsh Fern Family
  7. Phegopteridoideae
  8. Beech Ferns

genus

Beech Ferns

Phegopteris

Traits
Includes
2 native 1 introduced 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Long Beech Fern native
  • Broad Beech Fern native
  • Japanese Beech Fern introduced
  • Taiwanese Beech Fern introduced
  • Tall Beech Fern

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Fern Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native beech ferns All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Long Beech Fern Phegopteris connectilis food 4
  • Broad Beech Fern Phegopteris hexagonoptera

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