Plants : AspleniaceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Asplenium viride Huds.

Green Spleenwort

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Asplenium viride

Description: A small and rather delicate fern which resembles Asplenium trichomanes but has a green midrib to the leaf instead of black. It is much more restricted and is confined to the Carboniferous limestone outcrops of Co. Fermanagh within Northern Ireland. (Also found on the same rock type in the Republic of Ireland).

All names: Asplenium viride Huds.; Asplenium trichomanes-ramosum L.

Distribution Map from NBN: Asplenium viride at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Asplenium viride at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Hackney, P., 2026. Asplenium viride. Huds.. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland.
https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=2049. Accessed on 2026-11-02.