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Woodwardia virginica

American chain fern

Other common names
Virginian chain fern
Synonyms
Botanical details
Family
Blechnaceae
Native to the UK
No
Potentially harmful
Genus

Woodwardia

Genus description

Woodwardia are robust rhizomatous ferns with deciduous or evergreen, pinnate to bipinnate fronds, bearing spores in chain-like lines on the undersides

Name status

Correct

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