Fern ID
poolia
10 years ago
Rescued this fern from a big box store. Looked pretty bad. It is very happy now in my sunroom but i cannot figure out its name. Seems to be a creeping fern. You can just see a couple of of the runners in the center of the photo against the pot. I'm thinking a polypody maybe. But the runners are not fuzzy just smooth. Thanks for any help with a family or genus name.
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