Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Virginia ferns, part II: Dryopteris

Continuing the posts about our trip to Virginia with some photos of Dryopteris, the wood ferns! Most of these are of D. campyloptera, the mountain woodfern. It is an allopolyploid of D. expansa and D. intermedia, and has an interesting distribution, restricted to higher elevations and/or more northern latitudes in the eastern U.S.


D. campyloptera
Typical D. campyloptera habitat 
D. campyloptera
More foggy mountain-top habitat!
D. marginalis
D. marginalis
D. marginalis

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