Blechnum spicant
English: Hard-fern; Deer fern.
Synonym: Struthiopteris spicant.
Name: Latin spicant possibly refers to a tufted or spiky habit.
Clades: Blechnaceae
Region: Europe, western Asia, northern Africa, western North America.
Botany
Rhizome: with scales, hairs.
Leaves: 2 types; sterile leaves have flat, wavy-margined leaflets 5 to 8 mm wide; fertile leaves have much narrower leaflets, each with two thick rows of sori on the underside.
Habitat: hardy down to −20°C
Fern; evergreen; 50 cm tall.
Taxonomy
In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is placed in the genus Struthiopteris, in the subfamily Blechnoideae.