Common Names for the Hardy Ferns

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Common Names Found Here

Adulterated spleenwort	Alabama lip fern	Alaska sword fern	Alpine bladder fern
Alpine cliff fern	Alpine lady fern	Alpine water fern	Alpine woodsia
American climbing fern	American rock brake	Anderson's sword fern	Appalachian polypody
Asiatic holly fern	Autumn fern	Bead fern	Beaded wood fern
Berry bladder fern	Big leaf holly fern	Bird's foot fern	Black lady fern
Black spleenwort	Black wood fern	Blunt-lobed woodsia	Bog fern
Bracken	Braun's hollyfern	Brewer's cliff brake	Bridge's cliff brake
Bristle fern	Brittle fern	Broad beech fern	Broad buckler fern
Bulblet bladder fern	California barrel	California polypody	Chinese brake
Christmas fern	Cinnamon fern	Clinton's wood fern	Coast polypody
Coastal wood fern	Common polypoidy	Coville's lip fern	Crested wood fern
Cretan brake	Deer fern	Dwarf hard fern	Dwarf holly fern
Dwarf male fern	Eared lady fern	East Indian holly fern	East Indian holly fern
Ebony spleenwort	Evergreen wood fern	Fancy fern	Five-finger fern
Flowering fern	Forked spleenwort	Fragile fern	Fragile rock-brake
Fragrant cliff fern	Giant wood fern	Glade fern	Goldie's fern
Gray's polypody	Green spleenwort	Hairy lip fern	Hard fern
Hard shield fern	Hart's tongue fern	Hartford fern	Hay-scented fern
Hay-scented wood fern	Holly fern	Holly fern woodsia	Huguenot fern
Imbricate sword fern	Indian's dream	Intermediate polypody	Interrupted fern
Japanese beech fern	Japanese climbing fern	Japanese felt fern	Japanese holly fern
Japanese painted fern	Japanese tassel fern	Korean rock fern	Kruckeberg's holly fern
Lace fern	Lady fern	Laurentian bladder fern	Leathery polypody
Lemon-scented fern	Licorice fern	Limestone oak fern	Limestone wood fern
Little hard fern	Log fern	Long-eared holly fern	Lowland brittle fern
Mackay's brittle fern	Maidenhair spleenwort	Makino's holly fern	Male fern
Marginal wood fern	Marsh fern	Massachusetts fern	Mexican male fern
Mother shield fern	Mountain bladder fern	Mountain cliff fern	Mountain holly fern
Mountain male fern	Mountain polypody	Mountain spleenwort	Mountain wood fern
Multileg Siberian	Narrow beech fern	Narrow-leaved sword fern	Netted chain fern
New York fern	Northern beech fern	Northern buckler fern	Northern maidenhair
Northern oak fern	Northern wood fern	Northern woodsia	Oak fern
Oblong woodsia	Oregon cliff fern	Oshaguji-denda	Ostrich fern
Pacific oak fern	Parsley fern	Parsley fern	Polypode de Sibérie
Prickly shield fern	Purple cliff brake	Resurrection fern	Rigid buckler fern
Rigid sword fern	Robert's oak fern	Rock polypody	Rock sword fern
Rock-cap fern	Royal fern	Rusty cliff fern	Rusty woodsia
Rustyback	Saw-leaved bracken	Scale fern	Scaly buckler fern
Scaly male fern	Sensitive fern	Shaggy wood fern	Shasta fern
Shield fern	Siberian polypod	Silver cloak fern	Silvery glade fern
Silvery spleenwort	Slender cliff-brake	Slender fragile fern	Slender lip fern
Slender rock-brake	Smooth cliff brake	Smooth cliff fern	Smooth lip fern
Smooth spleenwort	Smooth woodsia	Soft shield fern	Southern beech fern
Southern maidenhair	Southern polypody	Southern wood fern	Spider brake
Spider fern	Spinulose wood fern	Spinulose wood fern	Steller's rock-brake
Sunset fern	Sweet mountain fern	Sword fern	Tagawa's holly fern
Tapering fern	Tongue fern	Trifid holly fern	Upside-down fern
Venus's-hair fern	Virginia chain fern	Walking fern	Walking fern
Wall rue	Wavy cloak fern	Welsh polypody	Western cliff fern
Western maindenhair	Western oak fern	Western polypody	Western polypody
Winged beech fern	Wooly lip fern

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