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Appendix (continued)
Ferns and Fern Allies
This list of park ferns is taken from Peter Mazzeo's "Ferns and Fern Allies of Shenandoah National Park."
Habitat symbols: 1 oak, oak-hickory forest; 2 cove hardwoods; 3 hemlock, hemlock-white pine groves; 4 oak-pine forest; 5 birch-maple forest; 6 wooded streams, stream margins, boggy places; 7 fields, road shoulders; 8 shrubby abandoned fields; 9 shrub swamp; 10 open cliffs, rock outcrops; 11 shaded cliffs, rock outcrops
Occurrence symbols: C common; U uncommon; R rare
| Common Name | Scientific Name | Habitats | Occurrence |
| Common Horsetail | Equisetum arvense | 7 | U |
| Mountain Club-moss | Lycopodium selago | 11 | R |
| Fir Club-moss | L. selago var. patens | 11 | U |
| Shining Club-moss | L. lucidulum | 2, 3 | U |
| Common Club-moss | L. clavatum | 8 | R |
| Round-branched Groundpine | L. obscurum var. dendroideum | 4 | U |
| Running Pine | L. flabelliforme | 1, 3, 4, 5.8 | C |
| Ground-cedar | L. tristachyum | 4, 8 | U |
| Spikemoss | Selaginella rupestris | 10 | U |
| Quillwort | Isoetes virginica | 9 | R |
| Leathery Grape-fern | Botrychium multifidum | 8 | R |
| Blunt-lobed Grape-fern | B. oneidense | 2, 5 | U |
| Cutleaf Grape-fern | B. dissectum | 1, 8 | U |
| Oblique Grape-fern | B. dissectum f. obliquum | 1, 8 | C |
| Triangle Grape-fern | B. matricariaefolium | 2, 5 | U |
| Daisy-leaf Grape-fern | B. lanceolatum var. angustisegmentum | 5 | R |
| Rattlesnake-fern | B. virginianum | 2 | C |
| Royal Fern | Osmunda regalis | 6, 9 | U |
| Interrupted Fern | O. claytoniana | 1, 2, 5, 6 | C |
| Cinnamon Fern | O. cinnamonea | 6, 9 | C |
| Rusty Woodsia | Woodsia ilvensis | 10 | R |
| Blunt-lobed Woodsia | W. obtusa | 8, 10, 11 | C |
| Fragile Fern | Cystopteris fragilis | 11 | U |
| Sensitive Fern | Onoclea sensibilis | 6, 9 | C |
| Woodland Oak Fern | Thelypteris dryopteris | 5, 11 | U |
| Marsh Fern | T. palustris | 6, 9 | U |
| New York Fern | T. noveboracensis | 2, 3, 6 | C |
| Broad Beech Fern | T. hexagonoptera | 2 | C |
| Spinulose Wood-fern | Dryopteris spinulosa D. intermedia | 6 2, 3, 5, 11 | U C |
| Marginal Shield-fern | D. marginalis | 1, 2, 3, 5, 11 | C |
| Christmas Fern | Polystichum acrostichoides | 1, 2, 3, 11 | C |
| Hay-scented Fern | Dennstaedtia punctilobula | 1, 5, 7, 8, 11 | C |
| Silvery Spleenwort | Athyrium thelypterioides | 2 | U |
| Lady Fern | A. filix-femina var. asplenioides (A. asplenioides A. Eaton) | 2, 6 | C |
| Walking Fern | Camptosorus rhizophyllus | 11 | U |
| Pinnatifid Spleenwort | Asplenium pinnatifidum | 11 | R |
| Mountain Spleenwort | A. montanum | 11 | U |
| Bradley's Spleenwort | A. bradleyi | 11 | R |
| Blackstem Spleenwort | A. resiliens | 11 | R |
| Maidenhair Spleenwort | A. trichomanes | 11 | U |
| Ebony Spleenwort | A. platyneuron | 8, 10, 11 | C |
| Hairy Lip-fern | Cheilanthes lanosa | 10 | U |
| Maidenhair Fern | Adiantum pedatum | 2 | C |
| Bracken Fern | Pteridium aquilinum | 4, 8 | C |
| Common Polypody | Polypodium virginianum | 11 | C |
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