L. Smith
Single individual
Popular name: Fragrant woodfern
Location: Steel plant, Sault Sainte Marie
Habitat/Remarks: Found along a rock slag
Annotations: Misidentified; previously Dryopteris fragrans
Fragrant cliff fern:
(i) leaf with very densely crowed leaflets and tapered to base
(ii) stalk very short
~ forms bouquet-like bunches of dead brown leaves with green living leaves occupying the center. Usually seen as small isolated plants.
Found on rocky banks.