Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central European Russia, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Comoros, Connecticut, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Free State, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Gulf of Guinea Is., Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Madagascar, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northern Provinces, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, South Dakota, Spain, Sudan, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zaïre

Introduced into:

Chatham Is.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

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Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

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Flora of West Tropical Africa

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Kew Backbone Distributions

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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

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