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Athyrium filix-femina

DEFINITIONS OF: Athyrium filix-femina

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n most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage

Synonyms:
lady fern
Types:
Alpine lady fern, Athyrium distentifolium
a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains
Type of:
fern
any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
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