Index / Search / Cystopteris fragilis
§1 Plant
Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh.
vernacular brittle bladderfern — species · Dryopteridaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Fern
- Family
- Dryopteridaceae Herter
- Genus
- Cystopteris
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 267 counties across 16 states/territories§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 267 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Aleutians West 02016
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Haines 02100
- Juneau 02110
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Ketchikan Gateway 02130
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Sitka 02220
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Becker 27005
- Blue Earth 27013
- Brown 27015
- Carlton 27017
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Chisago 27025
- Clay 27027
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Cottonwood 27033
- Dakota 27037
- Douglas 27041
- Fillmore 27045
- Goodhue 27049
- Itasca 27061
- Koochiching 27071
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Morrison 27097
- Pine 27115
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Redwood 27127
- Renville 27129
- Sherburne 27141
- St. Louis 27137
- Todd 27153
- Washington 27163
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
- Yellow Medicine 27173
Montana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 58 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- Schuyler 36097
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cameron 42023
- Centre 42027
- Clinton 42035
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Lawrence 42073
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- Mercer 42085
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Wyoming 42131
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CYFR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2650818 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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