List of ferns and fern allies of Soldiers Delight



The Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, consists of about 1900 acre of land in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA.  Much of the area of the Soldiers Delight NEA contains a serpentine barren that contains a number of rare and endangered species of plants.

The following list of clubmosses, spikemosses, horsetails and ferns comes from the publications by [F] Fleming et al. 1995, [M] Monteferrante 1973, [R] Reed 1984, [We] Wennerstrom 1995, and the unpublished data by [Wo] Worthley 1955-1985.

Division Lycopodiophyta
Lycopodiaceae (Clubmoss Family)


 * Diphasiastrum digitatum (L.) Holub - Northern running-pine, Flat-stemmed clubmoss, Ground cedar [We, Wo]
 * Diphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub - Blue clubmoss, Blue ground-cedar [Wo]
 * Huperzia lucidula (Michx.) Trevisan - Shining firmoss, Shining clubmoss [Wo]
 * Lycopodium clavatum L. - Stag's-horn clubmoss, Ground pine [Wo]
 * Lycopodium obscurum L. - Groundpine, Tree clubmoss [We, Wo]

Selaginellaceae (Spikemoss Family)


 * Selaginella apoda (L.) Spring - Meadow spikemoss [M, R, Wo]

Division Equisetophyta
Equisetaceae (Horsetail Family)


 * Equisetum arvense L. - Common horsetail [R, Wo]
 * Equisetum hyemale L. - Scouring rush, Rough horsetail [Wo]
 * Equisetum sylvaticum L. - Wood horsetail [R] {G5, Si, E}

Division Polypodiophyta
Aspleniaceae (Spleenwort Family)


 * Asplenium platyneuron (L.) BSP. - Ebony spleenwort [M, R, Wo]

Dennstaediaceae (Bracken Family)


 * Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T. Moore - Hay-scented fern [M, R, We, Wo]
 * Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn - Bracken [R, Wo]

Dryopteridaceae (Wood fern Family)


 * Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth ex Mertens - Lady fern [Wo]
 * Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Mertens var. asplenoides (Michx.) Farwell - Southern lady fern [M]
 * Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernhardi - Brittle fern, Bladder fern [Wo]
 * Deparia acrostichoides (Swartz) M. Kato - Silvery Spleenwort [Wo]
 * Dryopteris carthusiana (Villars) H.P. Fuchs - Spinulose shield fern, Narrow buckler fern [Wo]
 * Dryopteris cristata (L.) A. Gray - Crested wood fern, Crested buckler fern [Wo]
 * Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A. Gray - Marginal shield fern, Marginal wood fern [R, Wo]
 * Onoclea sensibilis L. - Sensitive fern [Wo, We]
 * Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott - Christmas fern [M, R, We, Wo]
 * Physematium obtusum (Sprengel) Torrey - Blunt-lobed woodsia [Wo]

Ophioglossaceae (Adder's-tongue Family)


 * Botrychium virginianum (L.) Swartz - Rattlesnake fern [Wo]
 * Sceptridium dissectum Sprengel - Dissected grapefern [Wo]

Osmundaceae (Royal fern Family)
 * Osmunda cinnamomea L. - Cinnamon fern [M, Wo]
 * Osmunda claytoniana L. - Interrupted fern [R, Wo]
 * Osmunda regalis L. var. spectabilis (Willd.) A. Gray - Royal fern [Wo]

Polypodiaceae (Polypody Family)
 * Polypodium virginianum L. - Common polypody [R, Wo]

Pteridaceae (Maidenhair fern Family)
 * Adiantum pedatum L. - Northern naidenhair fern [Wo]

Thelypteridaceae (Marsh fern Family)


 * Parathelypteris noveboracensis (L.) Nieuwland - New York fern [Wo]
 * Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée - Broad beech fern [R]

Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area plant lists

 * List of graminoids of Soldiers Delight
 * List of lichens of Soldiers Delight
 * List of woody plants of Soldiers Delight
 * List of wildflowers of Soldiers Delight

Related flora articles

 * Lichens of Maryland
 * Ferns of West Virginia
 * Index: Plant communities of Maryland