Japan Flora: The woolly hairs light brown; sterile blades acute; pinnae somewhat glaucescent beneath; fertile pinnae olivebrown to blackish in interrupted pairs in the middle portion of the blade; sterile blades 15-25 cm. wide; pinnae 2-3 cm. wide, the segments 6-8 mm. wide. May-July. Wet places.
Honshu (centr. distr.); locally abundant. Korea, Manchuria, Ussuri, and e. N. America; a variety occurs in Formosa and sw. China to the Himalayas.