Native coastal fern confirmed growing in an Aptos neighborhood
A birdwatcher or hiker in Aptos, California spotted and confirmed a coastal woodfern growing along Horizon Way, adding a verified record of this native fern to public biodiversity data.
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Plant family
Dryopteridaceae
Called “Buckler-fern family” in GBIF
The Dryopteridaceae are a family of leptosporangiate ferns in the order Polypodiales. They are known colloquially as the wood ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family is placed in the suborder Polypodiineae. Alternatively, it may be treated as the subfamily Dryopteridoideae of a very broadly defined family Polypodiaceae sensu lato.
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