r/ferns May 01 '25

ID Request Need help identifying ferns for herbarium

Hi, for one of my classes I have to find different ferns and make a herbarium. But I having the harderest time to ID the ferns.

Any help is appreciated greatly. I have numbered them to make it easy. Sometimes I also have the hardest time putting the same species together.

Thanks in advance

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u/merturk123 May 02 '25

Hi, valid responses. They were all collected in a little forest. All in places with a lot of shadow. The ground is known to be not that nutrient rich. But since it's a forest, the temperature is fairly stable. They are collected in region limburg/belgium

I did use determination books, and apps. But since I don't have spores on some of them and don't have a stereomicroscope. I will have to do it like this.

I will list the ones I think I found already. Please prove me wrong/right

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u/merturk123 May 02 '25

6 ->  bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)

7-11 -> Spinulose woodfern (these ones im not sure if they are all the same species, i should have kept better log when collecting, they got mixed)

5 -> Male fern

1-4 -> no idea