Dryopteris cristata	type		IMAGE
Crested Wood Fern	fern	species

size(ft) 2 cut 2- decid. sterile fronds evergreen garden yes	ID tips Basal pinnae blunt triangles, almost equilateral Dimorphic, fertile fronds narrow with pinnae twisted to horizontal Not quite bipinnate
where . ME NH VT MA RI CT click . C . C . C for key	Comment Tetraploid parent of allohexaploid D. clintoniana Blunt lower pinnae identifiable in sterile hybrids
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