Rigid Buckler-fern

Common Name: Rigid Buckler-fern

Latin Name: Dryopteris submontana (Synonym: D.villarii)

Family: Dryopteridaceae

Rigid buckler-fern is a deciduous fern with grey-green fronds on short brown stems. It is a nationally scarce species which grows in limestone crevices, grykes and scree. It is very locally frequent in North Western England and occasionally elsewhere. In the Yorkshire Dales National Park there are populations of rigid buckler-fern on limestone pavement and rocky fellsides on the Carboniferous Limestone of the south west of the National Park, for example north of Ingleton.