Hart's-tongue Fern - Asplenium scolopendrium
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Species Description
Frequent throughout the UK. In favoured habitats it can be very common. Habitats include: shady places e.g. Woodland, walls, rock faces. I've even seen it growing in a road drain. Other names include: Phyllitis scolopendrium , Hart's-tongue, Hart's Tongue Fern. Evergreen Perennial.
A number of forms have been named:
- Scolopendrium vulgare crispum subfimbriatum cristatum
- Phyllitis scolopendrium crispa 'Christopher Robinson' (now Asplenium scolopendrium (Crispum Group) 'Christopher Robinson')
Varieties of ferns in the Bristol District by A.M. Jones, BNS Proceedings 1887
Captain A.M. Jones mentions 13 varieties from the Bristol district under the name Scolopendrium vulgare:
- var. crispum Gray First published in Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 15 (1821 publ. 1822)
- var. cornutum Leipner
- var. peraferens (now known as Asplenium scolopendrium 'Peraferens')
- var. undulatum (now Asplenium scolopendrium Undulatum Group)
- var. fissum
- var. variabile
- var. laciniatum
- var. multifidum Gray (First published in Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 15 (1821 publ. 1822))
- var. marginatum (now Asplenium scolopendrium Marginatum Group)
- var. submarginatum
- var. supralineatum
- var. ramosum Gray (First published in Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 15 (1821 publ. 1822))
- var. marginato-cornutum