walking fern

The name walking fern was derived from the way the fern spreads.

The park is also home to ferns including maidenhair, interrupted and the unusual walking fern.

Much more rarely, walking fern hybridizes with two other common spleenworts of eastern North America.

A triploid hybrid between walking fern and Tutwiler's spleenwort was accidentally produced in culture.

The hybrid between walking fern and maidenhair spleenwort, (A. trichomanes ssp.

Asplenium rhizophyllum - American walking fern (sometimes in Camptosorus)

Walking fern (Asplenium rhizophyllum)

The name "walking fern" derives from the fact that new plantlets grow wherever the arching leaves of the parent touch the ground, creating a walking effect.

This characteristic is also shared with the eastern North American walking fern (A. rhizophyllum) and several Mexican species including A. palmeri.

A hybrid with Asian walking fern, A. ruprechtii, has been produced in cultivation and is informally known as (A. x crucibuli).

Originally identified as a variety of walking fern (Asplenium rhizophyllum), it was classified as a separate species by Thomas Nuttall in 1818.

Asplenium rhizophyllum, the American Walking Fern, is a frequently-occurring fern native to North America.

The hybrid with walking fern (A. rhizophyllum), known as Scott's spleenwort (A. x ebenoides), regularly appears where the two parent species grow together.

Walking fern may refer to two species of fern in the genus Asplenium which are occasionally placed in a separate genus Camptosorus.

Also, white toothwort, lavender hepatica, dwarf ginseng and wild ginger, walking fern on mossy limestone boulders and flat-leaved sedges pollinating.

Asplenium ruprechtii, which goes by the common name Asian Walking Fern, is a rare, hardy, low-lying fern native to East Asia.

After enthusiastically identifying patches of maidenhair ferns, great ferns, walking ferns and lady ferns, she scowled at several invasive barberry bushes.

Hybridization between walking fern and mountain spleenwort (A. montanum) has given rise through chromosome doubling to a new, fertile, species, lobed spleenwort (A. pinnatifidum).

One variety - the Asplenium rhizophyllum, or walking fern - was never found in Manhattan before, said Mary Gargiullo, an ecologist who works with the Parks Department.

In 1974, John Mickel published Asplenosorus kentuckiensis as a new combination for the species to allow the continued recognition of the genus Camptosorus for the walking ferns.

He has written several provincial status reports in Quebec on ferns including blunt-lobed woodsia, walking fern (Asplenium rhizophyllum) and purple-stemmed cliff brake (Pellaea atropurpurea).

It is a close relative of Asplenium rhizophyllum (syn: Camptosorus rhizophyllus) which is found in North America and also goes by the common name of walking fern.

A. nidus and several similar species are called bird's-nest ferns, the Camptosorus group is known as walking ferns, and distinct names are applied to some other particularly well-known species.

Walking fern is one of the three parental species of the "Appalachian Asplenium complex", a group of Asplenium hybrids and their progenitors known from eastern North America.

Other ferns include both broad and narrow beech ferns, narrow-leaved spleenwort, oak fern, Goldie's, bulblet and crested bladder ferns and the curious walking fern.