Dennstaedtiaceae

Dennstaedtiaceae

Dennstaedtiaceae is one of fifteen families in the order Polypodiales, the most derived families within monilophytes . It includes the world's most abundant fern, Pteridium aquilinum . Members of the order generally have large, highly divided leaves and have either small, round intramarginal sori...

 

• Dennstaedtia punctilobula
  Dennstaedtia punctilobula
  Dennstaedtia punctilobula is a species of fern native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Wisconsin and Arkansas, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Alabama; it is most abundant in the east of its range, with only scattered populations in the west.It is a deciduous...
  
  — eastern hay-scented fern

• Pteridium aquilinum
  Pteridium aquilinum
  Pteridium aquilinum is a species of fern occurring in temperate and subtropical regions throughout much of the northern hemisphere....
  
  — bracken fern

Dicranaceae

Dicranaceae

Dicranaceae is a family of mosses in class Bryopsida. Species within this family are dioicous. Genera in this family include Campylopus and Dicranoloma.-Classification:The family Dicranaceae contains the following genera:...

 

• Aongstroemia longipes
• Arctoa anderssonii
• Arctoa fulvella
• Arctoa hyperborea
• Campylopus arctocarpus
• Campylopus atrovirens — cliff campylopus
• Campylopus flexuosus
• Campylopus fragilis
• Campylopus japonicus
• Campylopus paradoxus — paradoxical campylopus
• Campylopus schimperi
• Campylopus schwarzii
• Campylopus subulatus
• Cynodontium alpestre
• Cynodontium glaucescens
• Cynodontium jenneri
• Cynodontium polycarpon
• Cynodontium schisti
• Cynodontium strumiferum
• Cynodontium tenellum
• Dichodontium olympicum
• Dichodontium pellucidum — dichodontium moss
• Dicranella cerviculata
• Dicranella crispa
• Dicranella grevilleana
• Dicranella heteromalla
• Dicranella howei
• Dicranella pacifica
• Dicranella palustris
• Dicranella rufescens
• Dicranella schreberiana
• Dicranella stickinensis
• Dicranella subulata
• Dicranella varia
• Dicranodontium asperulum
• Dicranodontium denudatum
• Dicranodontium subporodictyon
• Dicranodontium uncinatum

• Dicranoweisia cirrata
• Dicranoweisia crispula
  Dicranoweisia crispula
  Dicranoweisia crispula is a species of moss that lives at both poles. It grows in the South Shetland Islands and on the Antarctic Peninsula.-References:*...
  
  
• Dicranum acutifolium
• Dicranum angustum
• Dicranum bonjeanii
• Dicranum brevifolium
• Dicranum condensatum — condensed dicranum moss
• Dicranum elongatum — broom-moss
• Dicranum flagellare — whip fork moss
• Dicranum fragilifolium
• Dicranum fulvum
• Dicranum fuscescens — dicranum moss
• Dicranum groenlandicum
• Dicranum howellii
• Dicranum leioneuron
• Dicranum majus
• Dicranum montanum — montane dicranum moss
• Dicranum muehlenbeckii
• Dicranum ontariense — Ontario dicranum moss
• Dicranum pallidisetum
• Dicranum polysetum — waxyleaf moss
• Dicranum scoparium
  Dicranum scoparium
  Dicranum scoparium, the Broom moss, is a species of dicranid moss, native to North America, including the Great Lakes region. It usually forms tufts or mats on soil in dry to moist forested areas...
  
  — broom moss
• Dicranum spadiceum
• Dicranum spurium
• Dicranum tauricum
• Dicranum undulatum — bog broom moss
• Dicranum viride
• Kiaeria blyttii
• Kiaeria falcata
• Kiaeria glacialis
• Kiaeria starkei
• Oncophorus virens
• Oncophorus wahlenbergii
• Oreas martiana
• Paraleucobryum enerve
• Paraleucobryum longifolium
• Rhabdoweisia crispata

Ditrichaceae 

• Ceratodon purpureus
  Ceratodon purpureus
  Ceratodon purpureus is a dioicous moss with a color ranging from yellow-green to red. The height amounts to 3 centimeters. It is found worldwide, mainly in urban areas and next to roads on dry sand soils. It can grow in a very wide variety of habitats, from polluted highway shoulders and mine...
  
  
• Distichium capillaceum
• Distichium hagenii
• Distichium inclinatum
• Ditrichum ambiguum — ambiguous ditrichum
• Ditrichum flexicaule
• Ditrichum heteromallum
• Ditrichum lineare
• Ditrichum montanum
• Ditrichum pallidum

• Ditrichum pusillum
• Ditrichum rhynchostegium
• Ditrichum schimperi
• Ditrichum zonatum
• Pleuridium acuminatum
• Pleuridium palustre
• Pleuridium subulatum
• Saelania glaucescens — blue dew moss
• Trichodon cylindricus

Droseraceae

Droseraceae

Droseraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family is also known under its common name, the sundew family.It consists of carnivorous plants: besides the sundews, the genus Drosera, it also contains the even more-famous Venus fly trap Dionaea muscipula...

 

• Drosera anglica
  Drosera anglica
  Drosera anglica, commonly known as the English sundew or Great sundew, is a carnivorous plant species belonging to the sundew genus. It is a temperate species with a generally circumboreal range, although it does occur as far south as Japan, southern Europe, and the island of Kauai in Hawaii, where...
  
  — English sundew
• Drosera filiformis
  Drosera filiformis
  Drosera filiformis, commonly known as the Thread-leaved sundew, is a small, insectivorous, rosette forming species of perennial herb. A species of sundew, it is unusual within its genus in that the long, erect, filiform leaves of this plant unroll in spirals - an arrangement similar to the...
  
  — threadleaf sundew
• Drosera intermedia
  Drosera intermedia
  Drosera intermedia, commonly known as the oblong-leaved sundew or spoonleaf sundew, is an insectivorous plant species belonging to the sundew genus. It is a temperate or tropical species native to Europe, southeastern Canada, the eastern half of the United States, Cuba and northern South America.-...
  
  — spoon-leaved sundew
• Drosera linearis
  Drosera linearis
  Drosera linearis, commonly called the slenderleaf sundew, is a sundew found in the Great Lakes region of North America, in Canada and the United States, such as in Michigan....
  
  — slenderleaf sundew

• Drosera rotundifolia
  Drosera rotundifolia
  Drosera rotundifolia is a species of sundew, a carnivorous plant often found in bogs, marshes and fens...
  
  — roundleaf sundew
• Drosera x belezeana
• Drosera x obovata

Dryopteridaceae

Dryopteridaceae

Dryopteridaceae, is a family of leptosporangiate ferns in the order Polypodiales. They are known colloquially as the wood ferns. They comprise about 1700 species and have a cosmopolitan distribution. They may be terrestrial, epipetric, hemiepiphytic, or epiphytic. Many are cultivated as...

 

• Athyrium americanum — American alpine ladyfern
• Athyrium filix-femina
  Athyrium filix-femina
  Athyrium filix-femina is a large, feathery species of fern native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, where it is often abundant in damp, shady woodland environments and is often grown for decoration.The plant is caespitose Athyrium filix-femina (Lady Fern or Common Lady-fern)...
  
  — lady fern
• Cystopteris bulbifera
  Cystopteris bulbifera
  Cystopteris bulbifera ' is a low-growing rock fern with creeping stems and narrow elongate deltate fronds which grow to 75 cm , native to eastern North America with two disjunct populations in the west. It is found only on calcareous substrates such as limestone. It commonly festoons limestone cave...
  
  — bulblet fern
• Cystopteris fragilis
  Cystopteris fragilis
  Cystopteris fragilis is a species of fern known by the common names brittle bladderfern and common fragile fern. It can be found worldwide, generally in shady, moist areas. The leaves are up to 30 or 40 centimeters long and are borne on fleshy petioles. Each leaf is divided into many pairs of...
  
  — fragile fern
• Cystopteris laurentiana — Laurentian bladderfern
• Cystopteris montana
  Cystopteris montana
  Cystopteris montana is a species of fern known by the common name mountain bladderfern. It occurs throughout the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, in Eurasia, Greenland, and Alaska, and throughout Canada. It is also present in the higher elevations in Colorado farther south.This fern...
  
  — mountain bladderfern
• Cystopteris protrusa
  Cystopteris protrusa
  Cystopteris protrusa is a common fern of eastern North America. Throughout much of its range, it is the most common Cystopteris. It is commonly known as the lowland brittle fern or lowland fragile fern...
  
  — lowland brittle fern
• Cystopteris tenuis
  Cystopteris tenuis
  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 Bernh. var. mackayi Lawson....
  
  — upland brittle bladderfern
• Deparia acrostichoides
  Deparia acrostichoides
  The silvery glade fern is a common fern in stream bottoms throughout much of the eastern United States. It often forms extensive colonies, growing from creeping crowns...
  
  — silver false spleenwort
• Diplazium pycnocarpon
  Diplazium pycnocarpon
  -Description:Diplazium pycnocarpon ' is a tall slender-leaved fern growing as individuals with 5 to 6 leaves. The plant spreads by creeping underground stems allowing a small colony to develop over time. The leaf blade is oblong-lanceolate and once-pinnate, unlike the closely related Athyrium...
  
  — glade fern
• Dryopteris arguta
  Dryopteris arguta
  Dryopteris arguta, with the common name coastal woodfern, is a species of wood fern. It is native to the west coast of North America, where it grows in oak woodlands and shady low elevation slopes in Southern California and north.-Description:...
  
  — coastal woodfern
• Dryopteris campyloptera
  Dryopteris campyloptera
  Dryopteris campyloptera, also known as the mountain wood fern, is a large American fern of higher elevations and latitudes. It was once known as Dryopteris spinulosa var. Americana. This species also has been referred to as D. austriaca and D. dilatata...
  
  — mountain woodfern
• Dryopteris carthusiana
  Dryopteris carthusiana
  Dryopteris carthusiana H.P. Fuchs is a species of fern native to damp forests throughout the Holarctic Kingdom...
  
  — spinulose shieldfern
• Dryopteris clintoniana
  Dryopteris clintoniana
  Dryopteris clintoniana, commonly known as Clinton's wood fern, is a fern of hybrid origin native to the northern hemisphere. It is a fertile hexaploid, arising as a species by doubling of its chromosome number from a hybrid between Dryopteris cristata, a tetraploid, and Dryopteris goldiana, a...
  
  — Clinton's woodfern
• Dryopteris cristata
  Dryopteris cristata
  Dryopteris cristata A. Gray is a species of fern native to wetlands throughout the Holarctic Kingdom. It is known as the crested wood fern...
  
  — crested shieldfern
• Dryopteris expansa
  Dryopteris expansa
  Dryopteris expansa, alpine buckler fern or spreading wood fern, is a species of fern native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, south at high altitudes in mountains to Spain and Greece in southern Europe, to Japan in eastern Asia, and to central California in North...
  
  — spreading woodfern
• Dryopteris filix-mas
  Dryopteris filix-mas
  Dryopteris filix-mas is one of the most common ferns of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, occurring throughout much of Europe, Asia, and North America. It favours damp shaded areas and is common in the understory of woodlands, but is also found in shady places on hedge-banks, rocks, and screes...
  
  — male fern
• Dryopteris fragrans — fragrant cliff woodfern
• Dryopteris goldiana
  Dryopteris goldiana
  Dryopteris goldiana or Goldie's wood fern is a fern native to the Northeastern United States and adjacent areas of Canada.It can grow larger than any other native North American Dryopteris species. Specimens are known with fronds six feet tall.It is one of the parents of the hybrids Dryopteris...
  
  — Goldie's woodfern
• Dryopteris intermedia
  Dryopteris intermedia
  Dryopteris intermedia A. Gray, the intermediate wood fern, is an evergreen eastern North American species also occasionally found in Europe. It is a diploid species, and is the parent of several species of hybrid origin, including Dryopteris carthusiana.This fern is often confused with several...
  
  — evergreen woodfern
• Dryopteris marginalis
  Dryopteris marginalis
  Dryopteris marginalis is known as the marginal shield fern or marginal wood fern. The marginal wood fern favors damp shady areas and is found throughout eastern North America. It favors moderately acid to circumneutral soils. It favors cooler areas, but is fairly drought-resistant once established...
  
  — marginal woodfern
• Dryopteris x algonquinensis
• Dryopteris x benedictii
• Dryopteris x boottii
• Dryopteris x burgessii
• Dryopteris x dowellii
• Dryopteris x mickelii
• Dryopteris x neowherryi
• Dryopteris x pittsfordensis
• Dryopteris x slossoniae
• Dryopteris x triploidea
• Dryopteris x uliginosa

• Gymnocarpium disjunctum — Pacific oak fern
• Gymnocarpium dryopteris — northern oak fern
• Gymnocarpium jessoense — northern oak fern
• Gymnocarpium robertianum
  Gymnocarpium robertianum
  Gymnocarpium robertianum is a fern of the family Woodsiaceae.-Description:Gymnocarpium robertianum has small , deltate, two to three pinnate fronds. Fronds arise from creeping rhizomes and have long, delicate rachis. The sori are borne in round clumps on the underside of the blade and lack an...
  
  — limestone oak fern
• Gymnocarpium x achriosporum
• Gymnocarpium x brittonianum
• Gymnocarpium x intermedium
• Matteuccia struthiopteris — ostrich fern
• Onoclea sensibilis — sensitive fern
• Polystichum acrostichoides
  Polystichum acrostichoides
  Polystichum acrostichoides is an evergreen fern native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota and south to Florida and eastern Texas...
  
  — Christmas fern
• Polystichum andersonii — Anderson's holly fern
• Polystichum braunii — Braun's holly fern
• Polystichum imbricans
  Polystichum imbricans
  Polystichum imbricans is a species of fern known by the common name narrowleaf sword fern. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to southern California, where it grows in rocky habitat in coastal and inland mountain ranges and foothills. This fern produces several erect linear...
  
  — narrowleaf swordfern
• Polystichum kruckebergii
  Polystichum kruckebergii
  Polystichum kruckebergii is a species of fern known by the common names Kruckeberg's sword fern and Kruckeberg's holly fern. It is native to western North America from Alaska to Utah to California, where it grows in rocky mountain habitat in subalpine and alpine climates.This fern produces several...
  
  — Kruckeberg's swordfern
• Polystichum kwakiutlii — Kwakiutl's holly fern
• Polystichum lemmonii
  Polystichum lemmonii
  Polystichum lemmonii is a species of fern known by the common names Lemmon's holly fern and Shasta fern. It is native to western North America from the Sierra Nevada of California north to Washington...
  
  — Shasta fern
• Polystichum lonchitis
  Polystichum lonchitis
  Polystichum lonchitis is a species of fern known by the common name northern holly fern, or simply holly fern. It is native to much of the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to Alaska to Greenland and south into mountainous central North America. It grows in moist, shady, rocky mountain habitat. This...
  
  — northern holly fern
• Polystichum munitum
  Polystichum munitum
  Polystichum munitum is an evergreen fern native to western North America, where it is one of the most abundant ferns occurring along the Pacific coast from southeast Alaska south to southern California, and also inland east to southeastern British Columbia, northern Idaho and western Montana, with...
  
  — western swordfern
• Polystichum scopulinum
  Polystichum scopulinum
  Polystichum scopulinum is a species of fern known by the common names mountain holly fern and rock sword fern. It is native to much of western North America, and it is known from disjunct occurrences in eastern Canada, as well. It grows in rocky habitat, often in full sun...
  
  — mountain holly fern
• Polystichum setigerum — Alaska holly fern
• Polystichum x hagenahii
• Polystichum x potteri
• Woodsia alpina
  Woodsia alpina
  Woodsia alpina, commonly known as Alpine Woodsia, is a fern found in northern latitudes in North America and Eurasia. Also known as Northern Woodsia or Alpine Cliff Fern, it is typically found in crevices, scree slopes and cliffs containing slate and calcareous rocks, especially...
  
  — northern woodsia
• Woodsia glabella — smooth woodsia
• Woodsia ilvensis
  Woodsia ilvensis
  Woodsia ilvensis, commonly known as Oblong Woodsia, is a fern found in North America and northern Eurasia. Also known as Rusty Woodsia or Rusty Cliff Fern, it is typically found on sunny, exposed cliffs and rocky slopes and on thin, dry, acidic soils.-Distribution:Its distribution is circumpolar...
  
  — rusty woodsia
• Woodsia obtusa
  Woodsia obtusa
  Woodsia obtusa is a common rock fern of Appalachia and eastern North America. It prefers a calcareous substrate, but also grows in neutral soils. It may grow on rock faces or in scree....
  
  — bluntlobe woodsia
• Woodsia oregana
  Woodsia oregana
  Woodsia oregana, the Oregon cliff fern, is a perennial plant in the Wood fern family .This plant is native to a large part of the western and northern United States and Canada.-External links:****...
  
  — western cliff fern
• Woodsia scopulina
  Woodsia scopulina
  Woodsia scopulina is a perennial plant in the Wood fern family .This plant is native to the western and northern United States and Canada. W. scopulina is a small fern, 10-20 centimeters in size, which grows in mesic to dry rock crevices.-External links:*****...
  
  — Rocky Mountain woodsia
• Woodsia x abbeae
• Woodsia x gracilis
• Woodsia x maxonii
• Woodsia x tryonis