The Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, consists of about of land in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA. Much of the area of the Soldiers Delight NEA contains a serpentine barren that contains a number of rare and endangered species of plants.
The following list of clubmosses, spikemosses, horsetails and ferns comes from the publications by [F] Fleming et al. 1995, [M] Monteferrante 1973, [R] Reed 1984, [We] Wennerstrom 1995, and the unpublished data by [Wo] Worthley 1955-1985.
Division Lycopodiophyta
Lycopodiaceae (Clubmoss Family)
Diphasiastrum digitatum - Northern running-pine, Flat-stemmed clubmoss, Ground cedar [We, Wo] Diphasiastrum tristachyum - Blue clubmoss, Blue ground-cedar [Wo] Huperzia lucidula - Shining firmoss, Shining clubmoss [Wo] Lycopodium clavatum - Stag's-horn clubmoss, Ground pine [Wo] Lycopodium obscurum - Groundpine, Tree clubmoss [We, Wo]
Selaginellaceae (Spikemoss Family)
Selaginella apoda - Meadow spikemoss [M, R, Wo]
Division Equisetophyta
Equisetaceae (Horsetail Family)
Equisetum arvense - Common horsetail [R, Wo]
Equisetum hyemale - Scouring rush, Rough horsetail [Wo]
Equisetum sylvaticum - Wood horsetail [R] { G5, Si, E}
Division Polypodiophyta
Aspleniaceae (Spleenwort Family)
Asplenium platyneuron - Ebony spleenwort [M, R, Wo]
Dennstaediaceae (Bracken Family)
Dennstaedtia punctilobula - Hay-scented fern [M, R, We, Wo]
Pteridium aquilinum - Bracken [R, Wo]
Dryopteridaceae (Wood fern Family)
Athyrium filix-femina - Lady fern [Wo]
Athyrium filix-femina - Southern lady fern [M]
Cystopteris fragilis - Brittle fern, Bladder fern [Wo]
Deparia acrostichoides - Silvery Spleenwort [Wo]
Dryopteris carthusiana - Spinulose shield fern, Narrow buckler fern [Wo]
Dryopteris cristata - Crested wood fern, Crested buckler fern [Wo]
Dryopteris marginalis - Marginal shield fern, Marginal wood fern [R, Wo]
Onoclea sensibilis - Sensitive fern [Wo, We]
Polystichum acrostichoides - Christmas fern [M, R, We, Wo]
Physematium obtusum - Blunt-lobed woodsia [Wo]
Ophioglossaceae (Adder's-tongue Family)
Botrychium virginianum - Rattlesnake fern [Wo]
Sceptridium dissectum - Dissected grapefern [Wo]
Osmundaceae (Royal fern Family) Osmunda cinnamomea - Cinnamon fern [M, Wo] Osmunda claytoniana - Interrupted fern [R, Wo] Osmunda regalis L. var. spectabilis - Royal fern [Wo]
Polypodiaceae (Polypody Family) Polypodium virginianum - Common polypody [R, Wo]
Pteridaceae (Maidenhair fern Family) Adiantum pedatum - Northern naidenhair fern [Wo]
Thelypteridaceae (Marsh fern Family)