Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Maxon
Bracken fern, bracken, tropical brackenfern
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Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn var. arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Brade
The ferns are all aligned in the same direction. This wasn’t the direction of sunlight, but it is probably the average direction of the most light. · 6/18/2016 · Pearl Hill State Park, Ashby, Massachusetts 
6/17/2005 · Pepperell, Massachusetts 
| 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 | Pteridium | A diminutive of Pteris, a fern genus |
| Species | arachnoideum | Resembling a spider |
Pteridium arachnoideum description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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