Athyrium filix-femina

Woodland Lady-fern
  • Elegant fern with leaves tufted, up to 1 m long
  • Fragile blade, finely cut, light green
  • Finely divided pinnae
  • Short pale green stalk with scales
  • Sori more or less curved, persistant indusia (make the difference with A. distentifolium)

WOODSIACEAE

= ATHYRIACEAE

genus Athyrium

 

 

 

 

  • Growth in spring, fructification in summer, fronds disappearing in fall
  • Beech-fir groves, shaded slopes, fixed screes, up to an elevation of 2000 m
  • Very common on the Vercors plateau