Gymnocarpium continentale(Petrov.) Pojark.

WFO wfo-0001115795 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gymnocarpium continentale, photographed by Reuven Martin
fig. a Reuven Martin, CC0 1.0 / 2021-08-28 / obs. 154913054
Gymnocarpium continentale, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. b Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144036851
Gymnocarpium continentale, photographed by Connie Taylor
fig. c Connie Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9557190
Gymnocarpium continentale, photographed by Allan Harris
fig. d Allan Harris, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107289574
Gymnocarpium continentale, photographed by Reuven Martin
fig. e Reuven Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158365632
Gymnocarpium continentale, photographed by Norma Malinowski
fig. f Norma Malinowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42046469
Gymnocarpium continentale, photographed by Norma Malinowski
fig. g Norma Malinowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23238946
Gymnocarpium continentale, photographed by Norma Malinowski
fig. h Norma Malinowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19444966

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Native range 29 botanical countries

Regions where Gymnocarpium continentale is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, West Siberia, Yakutiya, East European Russia, Finland, Norway, Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Iowa, Labrador, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Vermont, Wisconsin, Yukon AltayBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskWest SiberiaYakutiyaEast European RussiaFinlandNorwayAlaskaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaIowaLabradorManitobaMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaNew BrunswickNorthwest TerritoriesNunavutOntarioQuébecSaskatchewanVermontWisconsinYukon
Native distribution of Gymnocarpium continentale, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
British Columbia BRC
Iowa IOW
Labrador LAB
Manitoba MAN
Massachusetts MAS
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
New Brunswick NBR
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
Ontario ONT
Québec QUE
Saskatchewan SAS
Vermont VER
Wisconsin WIS
Yukon YUK
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
East European Russia RUE EUROPE
Finland FIN
Norway NOR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 99 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -33.4 °C -19.2 °C -14.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.2 °C 22.4 °C 24.0 °C
Annual rainfall 367 mm 722 mm 1,192 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 39 mm 79 mm 187 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 99 research-grade observations of Gymnocarpium continentale that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 4 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.

  • Carpogymnia continentalis (Petrov) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Dryopteris continentalis (Petrov) Fomin
  • Dryopteris pulchella var. continentalis Petrov
  • Gymnocarpium jessoense subsp. parvulum Sarvela

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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