APHOTOFLORA

An online educational resource and botanical image library dedicated to
the flora; wildflowers, trees, shrubs, ferns, liverworts and mosses, found in
South-West England, mostly around Devon and Cornwall, by David Fenwick.

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Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- frond 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- frond 2

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- frond / autumn 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- frond base 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- pinnae 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- pinnae 2

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- pinnae 3

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- pinnae underside 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- pinnae underside 2

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- pinnule base 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- plant 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- plant 2

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- plants 3

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- plants 4

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- plants / habitat 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- unfurling frond / crozier 1

A common species across Devon and Cornwall; especially common on moorland and heathland across the region.

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- juvenile frond 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- juvenile frond 2

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- juvenile pinnules 1

Bracken
Pteridium aquilinum
- juvenile pinnules 2

Juvenile specimen was photographed at Forder Valley Nature Reserve, Leigham, Plymouth, Devon. 28.06.07.

The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the flora of the region and help

people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but a few species may only be determined by observing microscopic differences that are characteristic to any one species.