Cinnamon Fern Osmundastrum cinnamomeum (Linnaeus) C. Presl    Synonyms: Osmunda cinnamonea.
Kingdom Plantae   >   Division Pteridophyta   >   Class Polypodiopsida   >   Order Osmundales   >   Family Osmundaceae   >   Genus Osmundastrum   

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There are two varieties of Cinnamon Fern represented in Maryland: Osmundastrum cinnamomeum var. cinnamomeum and Osmudastrum cinnamomeum var. glandulosa (Knapp & Naczi, 2014).

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Host plant for various moth species including Olethreutes osmundana (Gilligan, Wright, & Gibson, 2008).

There are 621 records in the project database.

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Cinnamon Fern in Caroline Co., Maryland (5/22/2017). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Garrett Co., Maryland (6/12/2011). Photo by Bill Hubick. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Worcester Co., Maryland (5/5/2013). Photo by Jim Brighton. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (5/5/2011). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (5/11/2011). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

The woolly stipes of newly emerged Cinnamon Fern in Worcester Co., maryland (5/5/2013). Photo by Jim Brighton. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (9/15/2013). Young plant. Determined by Carl Taylor. Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Baltimore Co., Maryland, underside showing tufts in axes.(5/20/2016). Photo by Kirsten Johnson. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Baltimore Co., Maryland (5/20/2016). Photo by Kirsten Johnson. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Prince George's Co., Maryland (5/4/2017). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Howard Co., Maryland (5/27/2013). Photo by Joanne Solem. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern growing in Frederick Co., Maryland (5/7/2016). Photo by Elizabeth Miller. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Howard Co., Maryland (4/28/2010). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Frederick Co., Maryland (10/3/2020). (c) giovanna, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by giovanna via iNaturalist. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern (underside) in Harford Co., Maryland (8/28/2016). Photo by Kirsten Johnson. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Baltimore Co., Maryland (5/23/1981). Photo by Jim Stasz. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Calvert Co., Maryland (5/15/2019). Photo by Ben Springer. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern growing in St. Mary's Co., Maryland (5/14/2015). Photo by Tyler Bell. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (4/13/2014). Photo by Bill Hubick. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/3/2015). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

A Cinnamon Fern fiddlehead in Kent Co., Maryland (3/27/2016). Photo by Nancy Martin. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Baltimore Co., Maryland (6/12/2019). Photo by Dwight Johnson. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Cecil Co., Maryland (5/12/2018). Photo by Josh Emm. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern growing in Baltimore Co., Maryland (4/21/2019). Photo by Sue Muller. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Baltimore Co., Maryland (4/18/1981). Photo by Jim Stasz. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Howard Co., Maryland (5/26/2016). Photo by Bonnie Ott. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Dorchester Co., Maryland (5/25/2017). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Frederick Co., Maryland (10/3/2020). (c) giovanna, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by giovanna via iNaturalist. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (4/27/2019). (c) kwixted0, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Kerry Wixted. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (5/21/2019). (c) atatone, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by atatone via iNaturalist. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Garrett Co., Maryland (6/22/2019). (c) Fluff Berger, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA). Photo by Fluff Berger via iNaturalist. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/16/2020). (c) psgray13, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by psgray13 via iNaturalist. (MBP list)

Cinnamon Fern in Howard Co., Maryland (5/17/2018). Collected and processed by Helen Lowe Metzman. Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)


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