an unstressed vowel
dryopteras in a plant order
Write dryopteris and the order will find it.
an unstressed vowel
Nurseries and seed lists index this genus under a long tail of cultivar names, so the genus itself has to be spelled exactly for anything to come back. The three letters at risk are always the same ones: the y at the start and the e and i in the last two syllables, none of which the ear can settle.
The class
An unstressed vowel, flattened until it gives the ear no information.
Same name
Other spellings recorded for dryopteris
The name