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Pteridium latiusculum; photograph Rob Routledge from Canada, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYRob Routledge from Canada, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia Commons

Pteridium latiusculum (Desv.) Hieron.

Dennstaedtiaceae · Alberta, British Columbia +47

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Pteridium latiusculum, photograph Erich J. Geske, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsPteridium latiusculum, photograph Melsj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPteridium latiusculum, photograph Melsj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPteridium latiusculum, photograph Melsj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPteridium latiusculum, photograph Melsj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPteridium latiusculum, photograph Melsj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 10 photographs ›

About the genus · Pteridium

Bracken (Pteridium) is a genus of large, cosmopolitan, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Brackens are noted for their large, highly divided fronds and are found on all continents except Antarctica; their typical habitat is moorland. The word bracken is of Old Norse origin, related to Swedish bräken and Danish bregne, both meaning fern. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Bracken", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

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Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeAlberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Colorado, Wyoming, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“rhizomatous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Erich J. Geske, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Melsj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Pteridium 6 in the reference

Pteridium aquilinum Pteridium aquilinum Bracken Photo: CC0, author not statedPteridium arachnoideum Pteridium arachnoideum Dennstaedtiaceae Photo: CC BY, Alex Popovkin, Bahia, BrazilPteridium caudatum Pteridium caudatum Southern bracken fern Photo: CC BY, harriiPteridium esculentum Pteridium esculentum Austral bracken Photo: CC BY, Ian Rainbow Pteridium feei Dennstaedtiaceae Pteridium pinetorum Pteridium pinetorum Dennstaedtiaceae Photo: CC BY, Anatoly Mikhaltsov

Names & registers

Also known as Pteridium latiusculum var. verum; Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum; Pteridium aquilinum var. champlainense; Pteris aquilina; Pteridium aquilinum subsp. latiusculum and 3 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Dennstaedtiaceae
Described by
(Desv.) Hieron.
Native to
Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba +46
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Pteridium latiusculum (Desv.) Hieron. (plant_name_id 3143767), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no item carries Kew's IPNI identifier 213801-2, POWO 213801-2
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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