Unidentified ferns - help please!

[JennyS]

I decided it was time to get brave and start identifying the ferns that were stacking up waiting......
With the help of Roger Phillips' 'Grasses, Ferns, Mosses, Lichens' I've managed quite a few, but the following have got me stumped!

Fern 1: Quite small, growing in a rock crack beside a forestry road.



Fern 2: Again smallish, in oak, ash and hazel woodland



Fern 3: Maybe 60-80cm tall - the spores don't seem to match any of the illustrations in Phillips....


Help and comments much appreciated!

(Ooops I've goofed - going to have to re-post as they're all enlarging to the first one!)

Hope I've got them right now......

[Deer Stalker]

Hi Jenny

I reckon they're all Buckler ferns. No.3 I'd say is Broad Buckler fern, the other two are a bit young for me to say.

[PeterJL]

Agree that 3 looks like Broad Buckler (Drypoteris dilatata) and that the others are a but young.

The first looks it grow up to be a male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) and the other one might turn out to be Black Spleenwort (Asplenium adiantum-nigrum)but when they are young they can look very different from the mature fronds.

[JennyS]

Thanks to you both for the help - I should have realised the third was Broad Buckler Fern - it was obvious once I'd been told!