BOTANICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
SPECIES: Thelypteris phegopteris | Northern Beech Fern 



GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS : 
Northern beech fern has slender, creeping rhizomes.  The erect, solitary
fronds grow 4 to 20 inches (10-50 cm) long [2,6].


RAUNKIAER LIFE FORM : 
   Hemicryptophyte


REGENERATION PROCESSES : 
NO-ENTRY


SITE CHARACTERISTICS : 
Northern beech fern grows in areas with boreal, wet temperate, cool
mesothermal climates.  It grows on moist, calcareous cliff crevices or
moist banks in rich, damp forest floors.  It is often associated with
maidenhair fern (Adinatum pedatum).  It is rare to scattered in
herbaceous understories, with frequency increasing with precipitation.
It is also found on floodplain sites [2,4,5,6,8].


SUCCESSIONAL STATUS : 
NO-ENTRY


SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Thelypteris phegopteris | Northern Beech Fern