? Ostrich fern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pteridophyta Class: Pteridopsida Order: Athyriales Family: Onocleaceae Genus: Matteuccia Species: M. struthiopteris
Binomial name
Matteuccia struthiopteris (L.) Todaro

The Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is a crown-forming, colony-forming fern, occurring in northern regions worldwide, and in northern/central North America. This fern grows from a completely vertical crown, favoring riverbanks and sandbars, but sends out lateral stolons to form new crowns. It thus forming dense colonies resistant to destruction by floodwaters. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (600x707, 279 KB) Matteuccia struthiopteris. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Marattiopsida Osmundopsida Gleicheniopsida Pteridopsida A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of some twenty thousand species of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly known as Filicophyta. ... Subclasses Subclass: Cyatheatae Subclass: Schizaeatae Subclass: Pteriditae Subclass: Polypoditae The Pteridopsida is a class of plants in the Division Pteridophyta that includes the modern ferns. ... Families Athyriaceae - Lady Fern Family Blechnaceae - Chain Fern Family Onocleaceae - Sensitive Fern Family Woodsiaceae - Cliff Fern Family Cystopteridaceae - Fragile Fern Family Thelypteridaceae - Female Fern Family The Athyriales is one of the largest fern orders, including not only tropical ferns but many of the temperate ferns. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné ▶(?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... Agostino Todaro (1818 - 1892) was an Italian botanist. ... Classes Marattiopsida Osmundopsida Gleicheniopsida Pteridopsida A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of some twenty thousand species of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly known as Filicophyta. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the... A stolon is an aerial shoot from a plant with the ability to produce adventitious roots and new offshoots of the same plant. ...

The fronds are very dimorphic, with the sterile fronds being almost vertical, and long-tapering to the base but short-tapering to the tip, so that they resemble ostrich plumes, hence the name. The fronds may grow five or more feet tall under ideal conditions. The fertile fronds are brown when ripe, with highly modified and constricted leaf tissue curled over the sporangia. A fern with simple (lobed or pinnatifid) blades, the dissection of each blade not quite reaching to the rachis. ... Binomial name Struthio camelus Linnaeus, 1758 The ostrich (Struthio camelus) is a flightless bird native to Africa. ... A sporangium (pl. ...

The ostrich fern is a popular fern for the garden. The fiddleheads are also popular as a cooked green, considered a delicacy. Part of a garden in Bristol, England A flower bed in the gardens of Bristol Zoo, England Checkered flower bed in Tours, France A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. ... Fiddlehead is a name referring either to a young fern or to the top part of immature fronds that appear curled. ...