Asplenium scolopendrium L.
Hart’s tongue fern
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6/22/2017 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 12 × 8″ (31 × 20 cm) 
6/22/2017 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 12 × 8″ (31 × 20 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 | Aspleniaceae | Spleenworts, a group of ferns |
| Genus | Asplenium | From Greek a, “without,” and splēn, “spleen” |
| Species | scolopendrium |
Asplenium scolopendrium description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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