Index / Search / Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum

§1 Plant

Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth ssp. angustum (Willd.) R.T. Clausen

vernacular subarctic ladyfern — subspecies · Dryopteridaceae


USDA
ATFIA
GBIF
6388270 syn.
Rank
subspecies
subarctic ladyfern (Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum)
Platephotograph · jacquelineroseCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Fern
Family
Dryopteridaceae Herter
Genus
Athyrium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 274 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 274 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 274 counties across 14 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 3 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 73 N
Indiana view state ↗ 36 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N
Maine view state ↗ 15 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N
New York view state ↗ 14 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 67 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N
Vermont view state ↗ 14 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 17 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ATFIA ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/6388270 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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