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Definition of Beech fern
1. Noun. Any fern of the genus Phegopteris having deeply cut triangular fronds.
Group relationships: Genus Phegopteris, Phegopteris
Specialized synonyms: Broad Beech Fern, Dryopteris Hexagonoptera, Phegopteris Hexagonoptera, Southern Beech Fern, Thelypteris Hexagonoptera, Dryopteris Phegopteris, Long Beech Fern, Narrow Beech Fern, Northern Beech Fern, Phegopteris Connectilis, Thelypteris Phegopteris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beech Fern
Literary usage of Beech fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Greenland, Europe and Asia. Aug. Sun-fern. Common beech-fern. ) 15. ... Called also
Hexagon Beech-fern. 16. Dryopteris Dryopteris (L.) Britton. Oak-fern. ..."
2. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"The name " beech-fern" refers not, as some suppose, to the fact of the plant
growing especially in beech-woods, which is not by any means the fact,—but to ..."
3. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"Phegopteris alpestris, or Tufted beech fern, has oblong leaves which taper towards
the top. Phegopteris Dryopteris, or Oak Fern, is extremely attractive, ..."
4. Catalogue of the Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Michigan by Charles Fay Wheeler, Erwin Frink Smith (1881)
"Hexagon Beech-Fern. Oak-Fern. Occurs in N. Ohio, and may be looked for S.
PHEGOPTERIS 1585. polypodioides, F6e. Isle Royale—Dr. AB Lyons. ..."
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