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Common Wood Fern

Dryopteris expansa
The Wood fern likes moist, shady wooded areas. It needs abundant mold and humus from rotting wood to grow. The wood fern prefers even wetter areas than the lady fern.

This fern species has spreading, erect clustered fronds that grow up to 3 feet tall. The blades are triangular to oval to broadly oblong. The leaflets come in 5 to 20 pairs. The lowest leaflet pair is broadly triangular and asymetrical.
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