- Blechnum spicant
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Blechnum spicant 
Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pteridophyta Class: Pteridopsida Order: Athyriales Family: Blechnaceae Genus: Blechnum Species: B. spicant Binomial name Blechnum spicant
(L.) Sm.Blechnum spicant is a species of fern known by the common names Deer fern or hard fern. It is native to Europe and western North America. Like some other Blechnum it has two types of leaves. The sterile leaves have flat, wavy-margined leaflets 5 to 8 millimeters wide, while the fertile leaves have much narrower leaflets, each with two thick rows of sori on the underside.
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A sterile leaf
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A fertile leaf with sori
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Appearance in Spring with dead sterile leaves. B. arcuatum • B. blechnoides • B. brasiliense • B. chambersii • B. chilense • B. dendrophilum • B. discolor • B. durum • B. eburneum • B. filiforme • B. fluviatile • B. gibbum • B. magellanicum • B. monomorphum • B. penna-marina • B. petiolare • B. spicant • B. socialis • B. tabulareCategories:- Blechnum
- Ferns of California
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada region (U.S.)
- Flora of Europe
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- Fern stubs
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