Lady Fern, (Athyrium filix-fermina)

                                       







         















File:Lady Fern frond - normal appearance.jpg. (2013, June 10). Retrieved October 31, 2014, from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_Fern_frond_-_normal_appearance.jpg


         The lady fern has a height of 2 m tall, rhizomes stout, that is filled with scales and old leaf bases. The leaves are shaped in stripes and are short but very fragile. The base if the leaf is very scaly and much shorter than the blades. The blades are shaped broadly lanced and tapering at both ends. The leaflets are in twenty to forty pairs, and the top and bottom leafs get reduced over time. The Lady Fern is found in moist and wet forests, thickets, openings, slide-tracks, gullies, meadows, and swamps.

Reference Guide. (1994). In J. Pojar (Ed.), Plants Of The Pacific Northwest Coast (p. 528). Canada: Lone Pine Publisher