Translations:AY Honors/Ferns/Answer Key/19/en
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Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)
Where found: Temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in eastern and northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.
Description: The Ostrich fern or Shuttlecock fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is a crown-forming, colony-forming fern. It grows from a completely vertical crown, favoring riverbanks and sandbars, but sends out lateral stolons to form new crowns. It thus can form dense colonies resistant to destruction by floodwaters.