Summary ⁵

Blechnum spicant is a species of fern in the family polypodiaceae, 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.

Distribution ⁶

Global Range: Interruptedly circumboreal, in the Pacific Northwest chiefly west of the Cascade Mountains and disjunct in northern Idaho; in Idaho, occurs in Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho (Idaho Native Plant Society, 1993).

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