Dryopteris cristata (L.) A. Gray is a species of fern native to wetlands throughout the Holarctic Kingdom. It is known as the crested wood fern. This plant is a tetraploid species of hybrid origin one parent being Dryopteris ludoviciana and the other being the unknown apparently extinct species dubbed Dryopteris semicristata which is also one of the presumed parents of Dryopteris carthusiana. D.
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Dryopteris cristata"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
