rock brake

Types:

American parsley fern, American rock brake, Cryptogramma acrostichoides

rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley

Cryptogramma crispa, European parsley fern, mountain parsley fern

fern of Europe and Asia Minor having short slender rhizome and densely tufted bright green fronds resembling parsley

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

Synonyms:

cliff brake, cliff-brake

Types:

Pellaea andromedifolia, coffee fern

evergreen fern of California and Baja California

Pellaea atropurpurea, purple rock brake

very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes

Pellaea mucronata, Pellaea ornithopus, bird's-foot fern

cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks

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

Synonyms:

American wall fern, Polypodium virgianum, rock polypody

Type of:

polypody

any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium