OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 11 taxa in the family Ophioglossaceae, Adder's-tongue family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Rattlesnake Fern, Sang-find

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Botrypus virginianus   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium virginianum   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Botrychium virginianum 006-01-001   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: In a wide range of fairly dry, mesic, and wet forests, cove forests, especially in nutrient-rich, moist bottomlands and slopes

Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & NC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Cutleaf Grapefern, Dissected Grapefern

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sceptridium dissectum   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium dissectum   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Botrychium dissectum 006-01-003   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Moist forests, clearings, old fields

Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC) (rare in NC Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Southern Grapefern

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sceptridium biternatum   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium biternatum   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Botrychium biternatum 006-01-004   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Moist forests, clearings, old fields

Common (rare in NC Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Winter Grapefern

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sceptridium lunarioides   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium lunarioides   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Botrychium lunarioides 006-01-006   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Old fields, pastures, young forests, granitic flatrocks, juniper-oak-blue ash woodlands over limestone, cemeteries

Rare (historically in NC Piedmont, but not recently seen)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Daisyleaf Moonwort

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Botrychium matricariifolium   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium matricariifolium   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Dry to moist forests (often successional), old fields, grassy balds, northern hardwood forests

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Least Moonwort

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Botrychium simplex var. simplex   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Botrychium simplex   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed gravelly areas in spruce-fir forests, northern hardwoods forests, grassy balds

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


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Common Name: Bulbous Adder's-tongue, Dwarf Adder's Tongue

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum crotalophoroides   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum crotalophoroides   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ophioglossum crotalophoroides 006-02-001   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Moist ditch banks, grassy roadside flats, lawns, cemeteries, moist pine woodlands

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Slender Adder's-tongue

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum nudicaule   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum nudicaule   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ophioglossum nudicaule 006-02-002   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Pine flatwoods, lawns, and other moist, grassy areas

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Longstem Adder's-tongue, Stalked Adder's-tongue Fern, Longstem Adder's-tongue

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum petiolatum   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum petiolatum   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ophioglossum petiolatum 006-02-003   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Maritime wet grasslands, wet pine flatwoods, moist ditch banks, and grassy roadside flats

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas

Non-native? Asia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Southern Adder's-tongue

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum pycnostichum   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum vulgatum   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ophioglossum vulgatum var. pycnostichum 006-02-004   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Bottomland forests, moist loamy soils of successional forests and old fields

Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Engelmann's Adder's-tongue, Limestone Adder's-tongue

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum engelmannii   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum engelmannii   FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae

 

Habitat: Dry barrens and glades over calcareous rocks, very rarely on granite

Rare

Native to Georgia

 


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