OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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camera icon Common Name: Eastern Bracken, Brake

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Pteridium latiusculum   FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum   FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum 010-05-001   FAMILY: Pteridaceae

 

Habitat: Mainly in dry woodlands, forests, and heath balds, up to 1600 m in elevation

Common (rare in Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Southern Bracken

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Pteridium pseudocaudatum   FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Pteridium aquilinum var. pseudocaudatum   FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Pteridium aquilinum var. pseudocaudatum 010-05-001   FAMILY: Pteridaceae

 

Habitat: Mainly in dry sandy or rocky woodlands, often locally abundant in longleaf pine sandhills and pine flatwoods

Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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"The plant's reproductive organs occupy the center of the normal flower.... The male organs are the stamens and are made up of two parts — the filament or stalk, and the anther or pollen-bearing tip." — Lawrence Newcomb, Newcomb's Wildflower Guide