Nephrolepis exaltata (Sword fern)

4/11/2015 · Big Cypress Bend, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
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	Dryopteridaceae	Wood ferns (about 70% of the ferns)
Genus	Nephrolepis	From Greek nephros, ”kidney,“ and lepis, ”scale,“ in reference to the kidney-shaped indusia of the type species
Species	exaltata