Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Hay-scented fern)

Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T. Moore

Hay-scented fern, eastern hayscented fern

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10/5/2023 · Quill Hill, Rangeley, Maine

7/31/2016 · Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

10/3/2010 · Tarkill Interpretive Trail, Rte 402, Poconos, Peck’s Pond, Pennsylvania · ≈ 12 × 8″ (31 × 20 cm)

10/3/2010 · Tarkill Interpretive Trail, Rte 402, Poconos, Peck’s Pond, Pennsylvania · ≈ 12 × 17″ (29 × 44 cm)

8/12/2009 · Pearl Hill State Park, Townsend, Massachusetts · ≈ 17 × 12″ (44 × 29 cm)

8/4/2009 · Tom and Susan’s, Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 18 × 12″ (44 × 29 cm)

8/28/2020 · Jack’s and Litchfield Trails, Chase Reserve, Brunswick, Maine · ≈ 4½ × 7″ (12 × 18 cm)

8/28/2020 · Jack’s and Litchfield Trails, Chase Reserve, Brunswick, Maine · ≈ 6 × 10″ (16 × 24 cm)

8/12/2009 · Pearl Hill State Park, Townsend, Massachusetts · ≈ 1 × 1½′ (34 × 52 cm)

8/20/2009 · Hayes Woods Nature Trail, Shirley St., Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 9 × 14″ (23 × 35 cm)

8/28/2020 · Jack’s and Litchfield Trails, Chase Reserve, Brunswick, Maine · ≈ 5 × 8″ (13 × 20 cm)

6/15/2012 · Tom and Susan’s, Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 17 × 12″ (44 × 29 cm)

8/8/2015 · Mt. Wachusett · ≈ 9 × 6″ (22 × 15 cm)

9/18/2015 · Andres Art Institute, Big Bear Mountain, Brookline, New Hampshire · ≈ 8 × 6″ (20 × 14 cm)

8/8/2015 · Mt. Wachusett · ≈ 7 × 4½″ (18 × 12 cm)

8/20/2009 · Hayes Woods Nature Trail, Shirley St., Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 6 × 9″ (15 × 23 cm)

8/28/2020 · Jack’s and Litchfield Trails, Chase Reserve, Brunswick, Maine · ≈ 6 × 8″ (16 × 20 cm)

9/18/2015 · Andres Art Institute, Big Bear Mountain, Brookline, New Hampshire · ≈ 11 × 7″ (28 × 18 cm)

8/12/2009 · Pearl Hill State Park, Townsend, Massachusetts · ≈ 3 × 4″ (7.8 × 10 cm)

9/20/2009 · Wild Gardens of Acadia, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine · ≈ 1½ × 1′ (52 × 34 cm)

5/15/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 12 × 17″ (29 × 44 cm)

9/14/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 17 × 12″ (44 × 29 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Pteridophyta	Ferns
Class	Filicopsida	“Leptosporangiate” (has to do with how their spores form) ferns—includes most ferns
Order	Polypodiales	Polypod ferns
Family	Dennstaedtiaceae	After August William Dennstedt (1776-1826), German physician and botanist, burgomaster of Magdala, director of the Belvedere garden near Weimar, and author of a work entitled Hortus Belvedereanus, a compilation of some 1500 plants. I have no information as to why the family name is spelled differently than his name
Genus	Dennstaedtia	Named for August William Dennstedt (1776-1826), German physician and botanist, burgomaster of Magdala, a town near Weimar, director of the Grand Ducal garden in Belvedere, and author of Weimar’s Flora in 1800, Nomenclator botanicus in 1810, and a work entitled Hortus Belvedereanus in 1820, a compilation of some 1500 plants. His name is sometimes given as Dennstaedt accounting for the spelling of the genus name Dennstaedtia
Species	punctilobula	From the Latin, meaning “with small dotted lobes,” referring to the sori

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Dennstaedtia punctilobula description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.