Description: This is a species which is very similar in many ways to the Broad Buckler-Fern (D. dilatata) but seems to be rather rarer. It has a narrower leaf profile than the Broad Buckler-Fern, and the leaves grow from a creeping rhizome so that they are not produced in shuttlecock-like clusters. Its typical habitat is wet woodland and fen carr on cut-out bogs. It hybridizes with the Broad Buckler-Fern to give a sterile hybrid: Dryopteris x deweveri.

All names: Dryopteris carthusiana (Villars) H.P.Fuchs; Dryopteris lanceolata-cristata (Hoffm.) Alston; Dryopteris spinulosa Kuntze; Dryopteris lanceolatocristata (Hoffm.) Alston; Lastrea spinulosa (L.) C.Presl; Aspidium spinulosum Sw.; Nephrodium spinulosum Strempel

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

iNaturalist: Dryopteris carthusiana at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.