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Dryopteris
beech fern
Botanical details
- Family
- Dryopteridaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Genus
Dryopteris
- Genus description
Dryopteris can be deciduous, semi-evergreen or evergreen ferns, with stout, erect or decumbent rhizomes and shuttlecock-like rosettes of lance-shaped to ovate, pinnately divided fronds
- Name status
Correct
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