Dryopteris ×neowherryi is a hybrid between D. goldiana and D. marginalis.
Dryopteris ×neowherryi
Collection data (, )
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Dryopteridaceae
- Genus: Dryopteris Adans.
- Species: Dryopteris ×neowherryi W. H. Wagner
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 27-V-2011
- Collected by: A. Gilman - M. Sundue - M. McHenry - M. Rosenthal
- Habit: Terrestrial
Collection Location
- Country: United States
- State or Province: Vermont
- Municipality: Bennington County
- Coordinates: 43.05098051220328,-73.09077216119607
About the Author
Michael Sundue
My field work is centered in Colombia, and Papua New Guinea. I am based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E). If you have any ferns that you want identified, please send them to me!
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Very nice – the medial position of the sori is killer for this hybrid.
Is this the plant from Duffy’s Swamp?
No, this is the plant that Art Gilman showed us.
Beautiful hybrid! Very rare in nature, I presume. By the way, do you know if David still has copies of “Henry Potter’s field guide to the hybrid ferns of NE”? I would like to buy one…
They are available from the Tryon Pteridophyte Library http://www.uvm.edu/~plantbio/pringle/Libraries.html
Thanks for the link! I will buy it tonight. That website is amazing, btw… I loved that photo of the Tryons in their early days. I also enjoyed reading about Cyrus Pringle (what a beard!) and the profiles of important collections at VT.