curly grass fern

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curly grass fern - rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tufts curly grass, Schizaea pusilla fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Schizaea, Schizaea - type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics; small leptosporangiate ferns: curly grass fern