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Osmunda claytoniana ~ interrupted fern

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Characteristics:
  • FAC+
  • Michigan C Value: 6
  • fronds 1.2 m long
  • growth form is symmetric clump
  • fertile leaflets partway up the frond distinctive on the larger fronds
  • stipe (leaf stalk) is typically ungrooved, round in cross section, sometimes fuzzy tufts
  • oldest known fossil record of any living fern in the world (200 million years)
  • rich, mesic woods and open woods
  • native
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