Summary ³

Phegopteris hexagonoptera, commonly called the broad beech fern, is a common forest fern in the eastern United States and adjacent Ontario. It grows from a creeping rootstock, sending up individual fronds that more or less clump.

Barcode data: phegopteris hexagonoptera ⁴

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Homer Edward Price, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/28340342@N08/6223474158
2. (c) Tom Potterfield, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgpotterfield/12144503995/
3. Adapted by Jonathan (JC) Carpenter from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phegopteris_hexagonoptera
4. (c) Barcode of Life Data Systems, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/30744853

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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