Uses
- Medicinal
The Iroquois used the plant as a traditional healing medicinal plant, for blood and venereal diseases and conditions.
- Culinary
Unlike those of the ostrich fern, the interrupted fern's fiddleheads are not readily edible, due to their bitter taste and a tendency to cause diarrhea. The base of the stipe and very young buds are edible, but should not be abused for risk of killing the crown.
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