Common polypody
Polypodium vulgare L.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- —
Polypodiaceae
Formerly Ctenopteris vulgaris
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- EpiphyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Madeira, Morocco, Temp. Eurasia, S. Africa, Kerguelen Is.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Chinese
- 假友水龙骨, 水龙骨, 欧亚多足蕨
- Asturian
- faceya
- Czech
- osladič obecný
- Welsh
- llawredynen gyffredin
- German
- Gemeiner Tüpfelfarn
- Finnish
- pohjankallioimarre
- French
- réglisse des bois
- Dutch
- gewone eikvaren, Gewone eikvaren
- Russian
- солодковый папоротник
- Simplified Chinese
- 欧亚多足蕨
- Slovenian
- navadna sladka koreninica
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Polypodium vulgare (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.