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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
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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