🌿 Family

Cystopteridaceae

11 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Polypodiopsida › Polypodiales › Cystopteridaceae

Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.

Cystopteris bulbifera is a bulblet-bearing low-growing rock fern native to North America, restricted to calcareous substrates.

Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh.

Cystopteris fragilis is a fern with bitter-almond scented young fronds, growing in rocky, shady slightly lime-rich areas.

Cystopteris protrusa (Weath.) Blasdell

Cystopteris protrusa is a terrestrial, mostly spring-ephemeral fern identifiable by its protruding rhizome and bladder-like indusia.

Cystopteris tenuis (Michx.) Desv.

Cystopteris tenuis, or Mackay's bladder fern, is a hybrid fern species native to the northeastern United States that grows on acidic rock and scree.

Gymnocarpium disjunctum (Rupr.) Ching

Gymnocarpium disjunctum is a delicate-leaved fern native to northeast Asia and northwestern North America that grows in shaded moist coniferous forests.

Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman

Gymnocarpium dryopteris, commonly called oak fern, is a sensitive fern that acts as an ecological moisture indicator.

Gymnocarpium robertianum (Hoffm.) Newman

Gymnocarpium robertianum is a small circumboreal calcicolous fern that forms documented hybrids with other Gymnocarpium species.

Cystopteris tennesseensis Shaver

Cystopteris tennesseensis is a lithophytic hybrid fern native to calcareous rocky habitats in the eastern United States.

Cystopteris montana (Lam.) Bernh.

Cystopteris montana, or mountain bladderfern, is a Northern Hemisphere fern that grows in moist mountain habitats.

Cystopteris diaphana (Bory) Blasdell

Cystopteris diaphana is a fern in the Cystopteridaceae family found locally on Europe's Atlantic seaboard.

Cystopteris alpina (Lam.) Desv.

Cystopteris alpina is a montane limestone fern in the Cystopteridaceae family, with hybrid origin and extinct status in Britain.

Related Families

Pteridaceae 105 species Dryopteridaceae 52 species Polypodiaceae 51 species Blechnaceae 43 species Aspleniaceae 41 species Dennstaedtiaceae 20 species Athyriaceae 12 species Thelypteridaceae 12 species

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