Group: Pteridophytina (Ferns)
Family: Osmundaceae (Royal Fern family)
Genus: Osmunda (Royal Ferns)
50–180 cm tall. plants: with sporo-trophophylls with distinctly segregated generative and vegetative sections. sporangia: at a panicle-like section at the apex of the frond. annulus: single-sided, only slightly developed. leaves: vegetative frond-section 2‑fold pinna...
The colours represent the floristic status of the species in the respective region. Green indicates native occurrences, light green naturalized occurrences. Adventive occurrences are represented by light yellow shades and plants that are cultivated (but rarely occur in the wild) are dark yellow. Grey colours are used, if the floristic status of species is unknown or uncertain.
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Natural, established occurences | ![]() |
Artificial occurences |
The color intensity reflects the species' abundance
Data: Floristische Kartierung Deutschlands (Stand 2013), Bundesamt für Naturschutz (www.floraweb.de)
forests, shrubbery, bogs, sedge-lands
in moist to wet habitats