Braken Fern

Description:

This perennial fern developes an erect and rather stout petiole up to 3 ft. Tall, from which there extends a single compound leaf up to 3 1/2 feet long and 3 ft.across that is triangular in outline. The petiole, central rachis, and lateral stalks of each compound leaf are light green to yellowish green and glabrous to finely short - pubescent.

Habitat:

Open woodlands, sandy woodlands, rocky wooded slopes, sandstone cliffs, sandy savannas, sandy thickets, sedge meadows, etc.