Pteridium capense
Pteridium capense
- Native to:
- Angola | Burundi | Cameroon | Cape Verde | Comoros | DR Congo | Equatorial Guinea | Eswatini | Ethiopia | Gabon | Ghana | Guinea | Gulf of Guinea Is. | Ivory Coast | Kenya | Lesotho | Liberia | Madagascar | Malawi | Mauritius | Mozambique | Nigeria | Réunion | Rwanda | Sierra Leone | South Africa | South Sudan | Sudan-South Sudan | Tanzania | Togo | Uganda | Zambia | Zimbabwe
Taxonomy
- Division:
- Pteridophyta | - Ferns
- Family:
- Dennstaedtiaceae
- Genus:
- Pteridium
- Species:
- Pteridium capense
Growth Characteristics
- Growth Habit:
- Geophyte
- Height:
- 150 cm
- Drought Tolerance:
- Medium
Keystone Species Ranking
- Caterpillar Keystone:
- ★★☆☆☆ Butterfly & moth species supported by this genus (NWF)
Garden & Ecology Notes
- Deer Resistant:
- Yes
- Fire Ecology:
- Fire adapted — tolerates or benefits from fire
- Fire Notes:
- Pteridium capense is a bracken fern that can resprout after fire from underground rhizomes.
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