Calflora: Polypodium scouleri

Polypodium scouleri Hook. & Grev.

Leather Fern, leather leaf fern, leathery polypody

Polypodium scouleri, a pteridophyte, is a fern that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Coastal Prairie, Coastal Strand, Redwood Forest, Mixed Evergreen Forest
Habitat:	coastal [Walker]
Elevation:	between 0 and 2001 feet
Family:	POLYPODIACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Polypodium found in California.

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Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

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See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

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Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 3 / 0 CCH Contra Costa: 1 / 0 CCH Del Norte: 31 / 27 CCH Humboldt: 60 / 52 CCH Mendocino: 25 / 13 CCH Monterey: 2 / 2 CCH Marin: 48 / 34 CCH Santa Barbara: 18 / 16 CCH San Bernardino: 1 / 1 CCH Santa Cruz: 5 / 2 CCH San Francisco: 51 / 40 CCH San Luis Obispo: 6 / 3 CCH San Mateo: 23 / 14 CCH Sonoma: 17 / 12 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Polypodium scouleri from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (POSC4)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database