1. Tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
   "They harvested the young fiddleheads of the Pteretis struthiopteris in spring";
   - ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris

Type of: fern

Part of: genus Matteuccia, genus Pteretis, Matteuccia, Pteretis