Blechnum spicant Hard-fern

Hard-fern is a common, small-medium sized fern in Britain which grows on acidic or peaty soils in woodland, hedgerows and heathland. The upright, leathery, dark-green fronds have a distinctive herringbone-like structure and come in two forms The vegetative fronds, which do not produce spores, have wider pinnae than the skeletal reproductive fronds. The reproductive fronds often stand out as they arise tall and upright in the middle of the clusters of vegetative fronds. Hard-fern is a common and characteristic species of acidic Sessile-oak (Quercus petraea) woodland, moorland and heathland in West Glamorgan.

Native

Blechnum spicant  is also known as Struthiopteris spicant,