Dryopteris carthusiana(Vill.) H.P.Fuchs

spinulose wood fern

WFO wfo-0001107298 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Dryopteris carthusiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. a Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204671956
Dryopteris carthusiana, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. b Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204586679
Dryopteris carthusiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. c Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204672317
Dryopteris carthusiana, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. d Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204440340
Dryopteris carthusiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. e Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204439205
Dryopteris carthusiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. f Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204676388
Dryopteris carthusiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. g Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204417812
Dryopteris carthusiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204136396

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Also published as 59 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aspidium callipteris Wilms
  • Aspidium groenlandicum Gand.
  • Aspidium spinulosum (Retz.) Sw.
  • Aspidium spinulosum Milde
  • Aspidium spinulosum f. anadenium B.L.Rob.
  • Aspidium spinulosum var. elevatum A.Braun ex Döll
  • Aspidium spinulosum var. exaltatum Lasch
  • Aspidium spinulosum var. subcoriaceum Rupr.
  • Aspidium tanacetifolium Rupr.
  • Dryopteris aristata Charit.
  • Dryopteris austriaca subsp. spinulosa (O.f. Müll.) Schinz & Thell.
  • Dryopteris austriaca var. spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Fiori
  • Dryopteris eu-spinulosa (Asch.) Fomin
  • Dryopteris lanceolatocristata (Hoffm.) Alston
  • Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt
  • Dryopteris spinulosa Holmberg
  • Dryopteris spinulosa var. dumetorum Underw.
  • Dryopteris spinulosa var. elevata (A.Braun ex Döll) Vollm.
  • Dryopteris spinulosa var. exaltata (Lasch) Vollm.
  • Dryopteris spinulosa var. glandulosa Gilbert
  • Dryopteris spinulosa var. patuloides Christ
  • Filix spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Farw.
  • Filix spinulosa var. intermedia Farw.
  • Filix-mas spinulosa Farw.

and 35 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.