Meaning : Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia.
Synonyms : adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, polypodium vulgare, wall fern
Meaning : Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers.
Synonyms : comptonia asplenifolia, comptonia peregrina