Gymnocarpium dryopteris

Common Oak Fern

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Common name

Common Oak Fern

Scientific name

Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman

Conservation status and threats

NOT protected by the law in Bulgaria.

Description and identification

Perennial herbaceous ferns¹.

Habitat

In the shady, partly moist deciduous and coniferous forests, less often in rock crevices, between 650 and 2500 m above altitude, more often on silicate terrain².

Dstribution in Bulgaria

Throughout the country in habitats suitable for the species³.

General dstribution

Almost all of Europe and all of Asia, including China and Japan, North America⁴.

References

1 Делипавлов, Д., И. Чешмеджиев, М. Попова, Д. Терзийски, И. Ковачев. 2003. Определител на растенията в България. Аграрен университет. Пловдив.

2 Йорданов, Д. (ред.). 1963. Флора на Народна Република България, том I, издателство на БАН. София.

3 Йорданов, Д. (ред.). 1963. Пос. източник.

4 Йорданов, Д. (ред.). 1963. Пос. източник.

Gymnocarpium dryopteris на български

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