Wikipedia:WikiProject Pteridophytes/Resources

Useful references for creating and expanding pteridophyte articles.

Books

• Cobb, Boughton; Farnsworth, Elizabeth; Lowe, Cheryl (2005). A Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America. Peterson Field Guides. New York City: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-39406-0.

  Good field guide for the northeastern US, with dichotomous keys. Species descriptions vary in length; rarer taxa tend to get a rather brief description.

• Gleason, Henry A.; Cronquist, Arthur (2009). Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Bronx, New York: The New York Botanical Garden Press. ISBN 978-0-89327-365-1.

  The authoritative manual for plant identification in the northeastern US.

• Cullina, William (2008). Native Ferns, Moss & Grasses. New York City: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-53118-9.

  Species descriptions and cultivation for a number of North American ferns.

• Flora of North America Editorial Committee, ed. (1993). Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 2. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1002&flora_id=1. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) fill in title and author parameters for the appropriate genus or species sub-article

  Comprehensive floristic account of pteridophyte taxa in North America (excluding Mexico).

• Hoshizaki, Barbara Joe; Moran, Robbin C. (2001). Fern Grower's Manual. Portland, OR: Timber Press. ISBN 9780881924954.

  A manual on the cultivation of ferns in North America. Includes short species-specific accounts and growing conditions for a large number of species, both native and foreign species cultivated in the US and Canada.

• Lellinger, David B. (1985). A Field Manual of the Ferns & Fern-Allies of the United States & Canada. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 0874746035.

  Keys and guide to, description of, and brief cultivation information for all ferns and fern allies of North America (exclusive of Mexico). Taxonomy obviously somewhat dated (pre-molecular systematics).

• Reed, Clyde F. (1953), The Ferns and Fern-Allies of Maryland and Delaware Including District of Columbia, Baltimore, MD: Reed Herbarium, hdl:2027/mdp.39015006935160

  Regional flora. Some taxonomy questionable. Good for information on certain hybrids and forms and varieties of the ferns described.

Journal articles

Systematics

• Smith, Alan R.; Pryer, Kathleen M.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Korall, Petra; Schneider, Harald; Wolf, Paul G. (August 2006). "A classification for extant ferns" (PDF). Taxon. 55 (3): 705–731. doi:10.2307/25065646. JSTOR 25065646. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-09. Retrieved 2016-12-22.

  First attempt to provide a comprehensive classification for all ferns based on molecular data.

• Smith, Alan R.; Pryer, Kathleen M.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Korall, Petra; Schneider, Harald; Wolf, Paul G. (2008). "16: Fern classification". In Ranker, Tom A.; Haufler, Christopher H. (eds.). Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes. Cambridge University Press. pp. 417–467. ISBN 978-0-521-69689-0.

  Update of the preceding, accommodating changes in Osmundaceae and Dryopteridaceae

• Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Zhang, Xian-Chun; Schneider, Harald (18 February 2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 19: 7–54. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2.

  Revised classification intended for herbaria.

• Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Harald Schneider (14 September 2011). "Corrections to Phytotaxa 19: Linear sequence of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 28: 50–52. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.28.1.6.

  Corrections to preceding, most notably establishment of Hemidictyaceae

• Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Chase, Mark W. (13 February 2014). "Trends and concepts in fern classification". Annals of Botany. 113 (4): 571–594. doi:10.1093/aob/mct299. PMC 3936591. PMID 24532607.

  A more "lumpy" classification.

• The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (November 2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 54 (6): 563–603. doi:10.1111/jse.12229. S2CID 39980610.

  A more "splitty" classification.

Ecology

• Balick, M.J.; Furth, D.G.; Cooper-Driver, G. (1978). "Biochemical and evolutionary aspects of arthropod predation in ferns". Oecologia. 35 (1): 55–89. Bibcode:1978Oecol..35...55B. doi:10.1007/BF00345541. PMID 28309868. S2CID 13199403.
• Gastony, Gerald J.; Windham, Michael D. (1989). "Species concepts in pteridophytes: the treatment and definition of agamosporous species". American Fern Journal. 79 (2): 65–77. doi:10.2307/1547161. JSTOR 1547161.
• Peck, James H.; Peck, Carol J.; Farrar, Donald R. (1990). "Influences of life history attributes on formation of local and distant fern populations". American Fern Journal. 80 (4): 126–142. doi:10.2307/1547200. JSTOR 1547200.

  Examining reproductive capacity of various ferns at a site in central Iowa.

Adiantum

• Lu, Jin-Mei; Li, De-Zhu; Lutz, Sue; Soejima, Akiko; Yi, Tingshuang; Wen, Jun (2011). "Biogeographic disjunction between eastern Asia and North America in the Adiantum pedatum complex (Pteridaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 98 (10): 1680–1693. doi:10.3732/ajb.1100125. PMID 21965133.

  Implied evidence for cryptic species in the Adiantum pedatum complex.

• Paris, Cathy A. (April 1991). "Adiantum viridimontanum, a new maidenhair fern in eastern North America". Rhodora. 93 (874): 105–121.

  Establishes Adiantum aleuticum and A. viridimontanum as separate species from A. pedatum.

Asplenium

• Wagner, Warren H., Jr. (1954). "Reticulate Evolution in the Appalachian Aspleniums" (PDF). Evolution. 8 (2): 103–118. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1954.tb00117.x. hdl:2027.42/137493. S2CID 87260508.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

  Discusses several hybrid complexes in Asplenium.

Websites

• Biodiversity Heritage Library Archived 2016-10-14 at the Wayback Machine

  Searching is a bit balky, but a number of pteridological and botanical journals are archived and searchable here.

• Biota of North America Project

  Run by John Kartesz. May be preferable to USDA PLANTS for species distributions.

• Botanicus

  Searches some botanical journals but also has many early descriptions (first publication of many species) online.

• Connecticut Botanical Society

  Well-illustrated species descriptions.

• Center for Plant Conservation

  Lengthy list of threatened plants, including several ferns. Provides accounts describing the species and conservation information.

• Fire Effects Information System

  Species accounts, with additional information centered on the fire ecology of the plant. Well-cited.

• Hardy Fern Library bibliography

  Nice list of additional sources beyond those treated here.

• Harvard Herbarium specimens.

  Occasionally has scanned images of the specimen.

• Jepson Manual online

  Brief species treatments and distribution within California of species native to that state.

• NatureServe Explorer Archived 2006-03-15 at the Wayback Machine

  Conservation status look-ups.

• Plants for a Future

  Descriptions of plants with some significant human use.

• PLANTS database

  Contains database with state and sometimes county-level distributions for plants in US and Canada. It is not clear that the data is being regularly updated.

• Tropicos

  Taxonomic information, including synonymy.

• USFWS recovery plans

  A few ferns are listed.