Noun: common polypody
- Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
"Common polypody covered the old stone wall";
- adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare
Type of: polypody
Encyclopedia: Common polypody