page_title: Ophioglossum vulgatum
section_title: Distribution
hierarchical_section_title: Ophioglossum vulgatum / Distribution
caption_attribution_description: Ophioglossum vulgatum growing in sand dunes on Anglesey
context_page_description: Ophioglossum vulgatum, commonly known as adder's-tongue, southern adders-tongue or adders-tongue fern, is a species of fern in the family Ophioglossaceae.
context_section_description: It is native to many regions with a wide scattered distribution: throughout temperate through tropical Africa; and throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere in Europe, northeastern North America, temperate Asia, and Eurasia.
  This small, hard-to-spot plant can occur singly in unimproved pastures, rock crevices and grassy path-sides, but also can occur in colonies of hundreds of plants in sand dunes.
caption: Growing in sand-dunes on Anglesey
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