Broadbeech+fern

flat =**RESEARCH:**= =**Phegopteris Hexagonoptera**=

Description: The Broad Beech Fern has fronds (large divided leaves) which can grow from approximately 25 to 75 centimetres long. The leaf blade is broadly triangular, 15 to 30 centimeters or more long and about as wide at the base, tapering to the top.

Range: The Broad Beech Fern grows in eastern North America from the southern Great Lakes region west to southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma, south to northeast Texas and the Gulf Coast and east to the Atlantic coast. In Ontario, the species is found in forest remnants in southern Muskoka, along Lake Erie, and in the eastern Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River region.

Protection: Broad Beech Fern is listed as a species of Special Concern under Ontario’s Endangered Species Act. Although this species does not receive protection under this act because of its Special Concern status, there are some populations along Lake Erie that are in provincial parks, where they receive some protection. http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/Species/2ColumnSubPage/MNR_SAR_BRD_BCH_FRN_EN.html Ashley Vite flat =Research:= Family: Telypteridaceae Habitat: rich woods, with moderately acidic soil Height: fronds 16-24 inches long Location of spores: underside of frond, near the leaf margin. Stipe: green and winged through the leaf blade; yellowish and smooth below the blade; at the base darker and slightly hairy/scaly. Growth Pattern: random Persistence: deciduous http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/ferns/phegopterishexa.html

Jessica Kerr
=Revised: information= The broadbeech fern can grow from about 25 to 75 centimeters long. It is listed as an endangered species. The broadbeech fern's habitat is in rich woods that has moderately acidic soil.