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Gymnocarpium dryopteris
About
Gymnocarpium dryopteris, the western oakfern, common oak fern, oak fern, or northern oak fern, is a deciduous fern of the family Cystopteridaceae. It is widespread across much of North America and Eurasia. It has been found in Canada, the United States, Greenland, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and most of Europe. It is a seedless, vascular plant that reproduces via spores and have a life cycle with alternating, free-living sporophyte and gametophyte phases.
- Family
- Cystopteridaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Gymnocarpium dryopteris
- Slug
- gymnocarpium-dryopteris
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cystopteridaceae
- Genus
- Gymnocarpium
- Species
- dryopteris
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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