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Cystopteris tenuis
Also called Mackay's Bladder Fern, Mackay's Brittle Fern, Mackay's Fern, Mackay's Fragile Fern, Brittle Bladderfern, Upland Brittle Bladder Fern, Upland Fern Bladder Fern
Cystopteris tenuis is sometimes known as Mackay's bladder fern or Mackay's fragile fern.
It was long considered to be a part of the superspecies for fragile ferns, as Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh. var. mackayi Lawson.
Bladder Fern · Alpine Bladder Fern · Bulblet bladderfern · Cystopteris chinensis · Greenish Bladder Fern · Dickie's Bladder-fern · Brittle bladderfern · St. Lawrence bladderfern · Mountain bladderfern · Lowland bladderfern · Bladderfern · Tennessee bladderfern
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cystopteris tenuis 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.
