Cystopteris bulbifera (Bulblet fragile fern)

9/19/2023 · Denny Reed Trail, Phippsburg, Maine · ≈ 1 × 1′ (34 × 40 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	Cystopteris	From Greek kystis, ”bag,“ and pteris, ”wing“ or ”fern,“ alluding to the sack-like covering of the sori
Species	bulbifera	Bulb-bearing