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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Ferns
  5. Polypodiales
  6. Bladder Fern Family
  7. Oak Ferns

genus

Oak Ferns

Gymnocarpium

Traits
Includes
6 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Northern Oak Fern native
  • Pacific Oak Fern native
  • Limestone Oak Fern native
  • Asian Oak Fern native
  • Nahanni Oak Fern native
  • Appalachian Oak Fern native
  • Intermediate Oak Fern
  • Britton's Oak Fern
  • Gymnocarpium × heterosporum
  • Tetraploid Hybrid Oak 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 oak ferns All

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

  • Northern Oak Fern Gymnocarpium dryopteris food 4
  • Limestone Oak Fern Gymnocarpium robertianum food 4
  • Pacific Oak Fern Gymnocarpium disjunctum
  • Appalachian Oak Fern Gymnocarpium appalachianum
  • Nahanni Oak Fern Gymnocarpium continentale
  • Asian Oak Fern Gymnocarpium jessoense

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