Pteridium arachnoideum (Bracken fern)

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Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Maxon

Bracken fern, bracken

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Pteridophyta	Ferns
Class	Filicopsida	“Leptosporangiate” (has to do with how their spores form) ferns—includes most ferns
Order	Polypodiales	Polypod ferns
Family	Dennstaedtiaceae	After August William Dennstedt (1776-1826), German physician and botanist, burgomaster of Magdala, director of the Belvedere garden near Weimar, and author of a work entitled Hortus Belvedereanus, a compilation of some 1500 plants. I have no information as to why the family name is spelled differently than his name
Genus	Pteridium	A diminutive of Pteris, a fern genus
Species	arachnoideum	Resembling a spider

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The ferns are all aligned in the same direction. This wasn’t the direction of sunlight, but it is probably the average direction of the most light. · 6/18/2016 · Pearl Hill State Park, Ashby, Massachusetts

6/17/2005 · Pepperell, Massachusetts

Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn var. arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Brade

Pteridium arachnoideum description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 26 Sep 2023.

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