hart's-tongue fern

Related to hart's-tongue fern: Phyllitis scolopendrium

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Noun	1.	hart's-tongue fern - tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya hart's-tongue, Olfersia cervina, Polybotria cervina, Polybotrya cervina fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
	2.	hart's-tongue fern - Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds Asplenium scolopendrium, Phyllitis scolopendrium, hart's-tongue fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores Asplenium, genus Asplenium - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae
	3.	hart's-tongue fern - common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay cow-tongue fern, Florida strap fern strap fern - fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves

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The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.

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As we sat at a picnic table amongst the towering and vibrant ash and maple trees, Don and I shared ideas for all the different natural ecosystems that exist in the park, each with their unique complex of flora and fauna, including the American hart's-tongue fern, Indiana bat and the globally rare meromictic (no seasonal mixing of surface and bottom waters) Glacier Lake.

Nature play at Clark Reservation: Bringing the park to the playground

It is moulded with the leaves of the Asplenium scolopendrium, better known as the hart's-tongue fern.