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• n  mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
• n  deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers

• common polypody
• adder's fern
• wall fern
• golden maidenhair
• golden polypody
• Polypodium vulgare
• Comptonia peregrina
• Comptonia asplenifolia