Asplenium

• spleenwort

  Any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium.

• bird's nest fern

  Tropical Old World or Australian epiphytic fern frequently forming tufts in tree...

• hart's-tongue fern

  Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds.

• scale fern

  Small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds.

Also contains

• aquatic fern

  Ferns that grow in water.

• polypody

  Any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium.

• tree fern

  Any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown...

• grape fern

  A fern of the genus Botrychium having a fertile frond bearing small grapelike clusters...

• maidenhair

  Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate...

• wood fern

  Any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris.

• bladder fern

  Any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike...

• holly fern

  Any of various ferns of the genus Polystichum having fronds with texture and gloss like...

• woodsia

  Any fern of the genus Woodsia.

• lip fern

  Any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid...

• rock brake

  Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions.

• filmy fern

  Any fern of the genus Trichomanes having large pinnatifid often translucent fronds; most...

• shield fern

  Any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat...

• flowering fern

  Any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia...

• climbing fern

  Any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining.

• strap fern

  Fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves.

• staghorn fern

  Any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds...

• sword fern

  Any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from...

• beech fern

  Any fern of the genus Phegopteris having deeply cut triangular fronds.

• rock brake

  Dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns.

• davallia

  Any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes.

• adder's tongue

  Ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue.

• marsh fern

  Fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places; cosmopolitan in north temperate...

• hard fern

  Any of several ferns of the genus Blechnum.

• chain fern

  A fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows.

• lady fern

  Most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage.

• pine fern

  Fern of Florida and West Indies and Central America with rhizome densely clad in grown...

• scented fern

  Sweetly scented African fern with narrow bipinnate fronds.

• giant scrambling fern

  Large scrambling fern forming large patches to 18 feet high; Pacific region...

• umbrella fern

  Large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in...

• bear's-paw fern

  Epiphytic fern with large fronds; Taiwan and Philippines.

• basket fern

  Giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia.

• lecanopteris

  Any of several bizarre ferns of the genus Lecanopteris having swollen hollow rhizomes...

• snake polypody

  Epiphytic ferns with long rhizomes; tropical America.

• climbing bird's nest fern

  Tropical Africa to Australasia and Polynesia.

• flowering fern

  Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds.

• golden polypody

  Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply...

• felt fern

  East Asian fern having fronds shaped like tongues; sometimes placed in genus Cyclopho...

• potato fern

  Small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes.

• ribbon fern

  Epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America.

• pecopteris

  Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling...

• fern seed

  The asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the...

• filmy fern

  Any fern of the genus Hymenophyllum growing in tropical humid regions and having translucent...

• crape fern

  New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus...

• king fern

  Fern of rain forests of tropical Australia and New Zealand and South Africa.

• curly grass

  Rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds...