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Cystopteris laurentiana
Also called Blasdell's Laurentian Bladder Fern, Laurentian Bladder Fern, Laurentian Fragile Fern, St. Lawrence Bladder Fern, Laurentian Bulblet Fern
Cystopteris laurentiana, commonly called Laurentian bladderfern or St. Lawrence bladderfern, is a species of fern in the family Cystopteridaceae. It is native to eastern North America, primarily in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence lowlands, but there are also scattered occurrences in New England and Atlantic Canada. It grows on cliffs composed of calcareous rocks, such as limestone, dolostone and diabase.
Bladder Fern · Alpine Bladder Fern · Bulblet bladderfern · Cystopteris chinensis · Greenish Bladder Fern · Dickie's Bladder-fern · Brittle bladderfern · Mountain bladderfern · Lowland bladderfern · Bladderfern · Tennessee bladderfern · Upland brittle bladderfern
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cystopteris laurentiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
