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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Dryopteris carthusiana
 
 
 CLASS:    LEPTOSPORANGIOPSIDA
 ORDER:    FICALES
 FAMILY:   ASPLENIACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Dryopteris carthusiana
 AUTHORITY:  (Villars) H. P. Fuchs
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    SPINULOSE WOODFERN
 
 SYNONOMY:
     Dryopteris spinulosa (O. F. Muell.) Watt
     Dryopteris austriaca (Jacq.) Woynar var. spinulosa (Muell.) Fiori
 
 PLANTS CODE: DRCA11
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
     WETLAND
       BOG
       SEEP & SPRING
         SAND SEEP
       LISTED
         CHARACTERISTIC
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ALEXANDER       CARROLL         CASS            COOK            CUMBERLAND
   DEKALB          DUPAGE          FAYETTE         HANCOCK         HENRY
   JACKSON         JO DAVIESS      JOHNSON         KANE            KANKAKEE
   KENDALL         KNOX            LAKE            LASALLE         LEE
   MCDONOUGH       MASON           MASSAC          MENARD          MORGAN
   OGLE            PEORIA          POPE            ROCK ISLAND     SCHUYLER
   STEPHENSON      UNION           VERMILION       WHITESIDE       WILL
   WINNEBAGO       WOODFORD
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Fern-allies
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)   (rhizomes)
    LEAF TYPE:    Compound  (pinnately)
    LEAF MARGIN:   Lobed  (pinnately)
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
 
    INFLORESCENCE:           No
 
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Evergreen; leaves bipinnate to tripinnate, not glandular.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Rocky woods.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     GROWTH OF SPECIES IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS:
          GRAVEL         No data entered    SAND           No data entered
          SANDY LOAM     No data entered    LOAM           No data entered
          CLAY LOAM      No data entered    CLAY           No data entered
          DENSE CLAY     No data entered    ORGANIC SOIL   Good
          NEUTRAL pH     No data entered    ACIDIC SOIL    Good
          EXTREMELY ACID No data entered    SALINE SOIL    No data entered
          SODIC SOIL     No data entered    SODIC-SALINE   No data entered
          ROCKY OUTCROPS No data entered    GENTLE SLOPES  Good
          MODERATE SLOPE No data entered    STEEP SLOPES   No data entered
     HABITAT:   Moist   Dry
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     MAJOR DISPERSAL AGENTS:   WIND
     MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT:   None
 
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     SHOWY FLOWERS:  NO
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Jones, G. N.  1963.  Flora of Illinois.  Third ed.  American Midland Naturalist
     Monograph 7.  University of Notre Dame, Indiana.  401 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
White, J., and M. H. Madany.  1978.  Classification of natural communities in
     Illinois.  Pages 309-405 in J. White, ed., Illinois natural areas
     inventory technical report.  Vol. 1.  Survey methods and results.
     Illinois Natural Areas Inventory, Urbana.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1983-continuing.  Illinois flora update.  Erigenia.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Dryopteris carthusiana
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015