boulder fern

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1.boulder fern - fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hayDennstaedtia punctilobula, hay-scented, hay-scented fern, scented fernfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesDennstaedtia, genus Dennstaedtia - chiefly terrestrial ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae