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Northern Lady Fern (Narrow Lady Fern, Subarctic Lady Fern, Common Lady Fern) (Athyrium angustum) (Also known as: Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum)


Identification Food & Medicinal Uses Web Page Links Online Videos References


Identification

KingdomPlantae – Plants
SubkingdomTracheobionta – Vascular plants
DivisionPteridophyta – Ferns
ClassFilicopsida
OrderPolypodiales
FamilyDryopteridaceae – Wood Fern family
GenusAthyrium Roth – ladyfern
SpeciesAthyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth – common ladyfern
SubspeciesAthyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth ssp. angustum (Willd.) R.T. Clausen – subarctic ladyfern


Food & Medicinal Uses

Web Page Links

Online Videos

References

1
Native American Ethnobotany
by Daniel E. Moerman
Timber Press, c1998
ISBN: 0881924539
2
Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to Eastern Indian Tribes
by Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Dover Publications, c1989
ISBN: 048625951X
3 Peterson Field Guide for Edible Wild Plants of Eastern/Central North America
by Lee Allen Peterson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (c1999)
ISBN: 039592622X













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