Dryopteris dilatata, the broad buckler-fern,[1] is a robust species of deciduous or semievergreen fern in the family Dryopteridaceae, native to Europe, particularly western and central Europe. In southern Europe, it is mostly found in mountainous regions. It is also found between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.[2] It grows to 90 cm (35 in) tall by 120 cm (47 in) wide, with dark green tripinnate fronds, the ribs covered in brown scales.[3][4]
The Latin specific epithet dilatata means "spread out".[5]
The species[6] and the cultivars 'Crispa Whiteside'[7] and 'Lepidota Cristata'[8]
have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[9]
^BSBI List 2007(xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
^Rünk, Kai; Zobel, Martin & Zobel, Kristjan (2012), "Biological Flora of the British Isles: Dryopteris carthusiana, D. dilatata and D. expansa", Journal of Ecology, 100 (4): 1039–1063, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01985.x
^RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
^"Dryopteris dilatata". NatureSpot. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
^Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.
^"RHS Plant Selector - Dryopteris dilatata". Retrieved 3 June 2020.
Dryopterisdilatata, the broad buckler-fern, is a robust species of deciduous or semievergreen fern in the family Dryopteridaceae, native to Europe, particularly...
being Dryopteris intermedia, known in North America as the intermediate wood fern, and an unknown, apparently extinct species dubbed Dryopteris semicristata...
division of the rhizome. It is easily confused with the related Dryopterisdilatata (broad buckler fern), differing in the usually smaller fronds, and...
formerly known as Dryopteris spinulosa var. americana. This species also has been mistakenly referred to as D. austriaca and D. dilatata. A distinctive feature...
terminal shoots of ferns, such as broad buckler fern (Dryopterisdilatata), male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas), lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina), and ostrich...
present in the Southwest Peninsula. There are four subcommunities: the Dryopterisdilatata subcommunity the Blechnum spicant subcommunity the Anemone nemorosa...
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includes heather and bilberry, with patches of broad buckler-fern (Dryopterisdilatata). Over two hundred plants of the nationally rare fern, Lobed Maidenhair...
broad buckler fern (Dryopterisdilatata) and royal fern (Osmunda regalis) are abundant. The hay-scented buckler-fern (Dryopteris aemula) is of interest...
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sylvaticum), wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) and broad buckler-fern (Dryopterisdilatata); and on very acid soil beneath oaks, great wood-rush (Luzula sylvatica)...
grows in a roof fissure in the company of Athyrium filix-femina and Dryopterisdilatata. Taxonomic classification within the genus Cystopteris is complex...
flexuosa, common bracken, Pteridium aquilinum, broad buckler fern, Dryopterisdilatata, and rowan, Sorbus aucuparia. Wanister Bog occupies a depression...
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