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Pteridium pinetorum; photograph Anatoly Mikhaltsov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYAnatoly Mikhaltsov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pteridium pinetorum C.N.Page & R.R.Mill

Dennstaedtiaceae · Denmark, Finland +18

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Pteridium pinetorum, photograph Anatoly Mikhaltsov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPteridium pinetorum, photograph Vasyliuk Oleksij, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPteridium pinetorum, photograph Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPteridium pinetorum, photograph Sino Yu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPteridium pinetorum, photograph Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 6 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

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeDenmark, Finland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, France, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, North European Russia, Yakutskiya · 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: Anatoly Mikhaltsov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Vasyliuk Oleksij, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Sino Yu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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 latiusculum Pteridium latiusculum Dennstaedtiaceae Photo: CC BY, Rob Routledge from Canada

Names & registers

Also known as Pteridium latiusculum subsp. pinetorum; Pteridium aquilinum subsp. pinetorum; Pteridium aquilinum var. pinetorum. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Dennstaedtiaceae
Described by
C.N.Page & R.R.Mill
Native to
Denmark, Finland, Great Britain +17
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 pinetorum C.N.Page & R.R.Mill (plant_name_id 3161795), 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 17565260-1, POWO 17565260-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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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