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Little curlygrass fern

Schizaea pusilla

Little curlygrass fern
Photo: Nathaniel Lord Britton & Addison Brown, Public domain
Family
Schizaeaceae (Schizae family)
Grows as
Fern
Native range
E. Canada to Delaware, Ecuador to Peru
Climate
temperate

About

Schizaea pusilla, the little curlygrass fern, is a species of fern in the family Schizaeaceae. It was first described by the German-American botanist Frederick Traugott Pursh in 1814. It is native to New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia in Canada, the French overseas territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and North Carolina in the United States of America. It is listed as endangered by the state of New York.

Other Schizaea plants

Forked Comb Fern · Schizaea dichotoma · Curlygrass fern

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Schizaea pusilla 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.

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