- Asplenium septentrionale
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Asplenium septentrionale 
Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pteridophyta Class: Polypodiopsida Order: Polypodiales Family: Aspleniaceae Genus: Asplenium Species: A. septentrionale Binomial name Asplenium septentrionale
(L.) Hoffm.Asplenium septentrionale is a species of fern known by the common names northern spleenwort and forked spleenwort. It is native to western North America, Europe, and Asia, where it grows in rocky areas.
Asplenium septentrionale grows in tufts from rock cracks and looks very much like a grass. It has flat leaves which may be simple or forked and are green in color, sometimes with reddish tinting at the bases. The leaves have usually one sorus each, but they may have more.
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Categories:- Asplenium
- Fern species
- Pteridophyta of the Americas
- Ferns of California
- Flora of North America
- Flora of Asia
- Flora of Europe
- Flora of Russia
- Flora of Finland
- Flora of the Western United States
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada region (U.S.)
- Fern stubs
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