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Definition: Blechnum spicant

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Fern with erect fronds of Europe and western North America; often cultivated for deer browse.[Wordnet].

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Extended Definition: Blechnum spicant


Blechnum spicant

Blechnum spicant

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Pteridopsida
Order: Athyriales
Family: Blechnaceae
Genus: Blechnum
Species: B. spicant
Binomial name
Blechnum spicant
(L.) Sm.

Blechnum spicant is a species of fern known by the common name deer fern. It is native to Europe and western North America. Like some other Blechnum it has two types of leaves. The sterile leaves have flat, wavy-margined leaflets 5 to 8 millimeters wide, while the fertile leaves have much narrower leaflets, each with two thick rows of sori on the underside.

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Appearance in Spring with dead sterile leaves.
Appearance in Spring with dead sterile leaves.

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