Polystichum polyblepharum (Tassel fern)

8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia · ≈ 2 × 1′ (59 × 39 cm)

8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia · ≈ 10 × 7″ (25 × 16 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	Dryopteridaceae	Wood ferns (about 70% of the ferns)
Genus	Polystichum	From the Greek polys, “many,” and stichos, “row,” referring to the rows of sori on the type species
Species	polyblepharum	Means “many eyelashes,” a reference to bristles on the stipe and rachis.