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Your search found 8 taxa.

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Common Name: Japanese Climbing Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Lygodium japonicum
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lygodium japonicum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Lygodium japonicum 008-01-002

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Common Name: Southern Lady Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Athyrium asplenioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Athyrium filix-femina ssp. asplenioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Athyrium asplenioides 011-01-001
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America Athyrium filix-femina var. asplenioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Athyrium asplenioides

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Common Name: Silvery Glade Fern, Silvery Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Deparia acrostichoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Deparia acrostichoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Athyrium thelypterioides 011-01-002
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Diplazium acrostichoides

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Common Name: Christmas Fern
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Polystichum acrostichoides
GREATER THAN PLANTS National Database: Polystichum acrostichoides var. acrostichoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Polystichum acrostichoides 011-05-001
GREATER THAN PLANTS National Database Polystichum acrostichoides var. lonchitoides

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Common Name: Mariana Maiden Fern, Swordfern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Macrothelypteris torresiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Macrothelypteris torresiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Thelypteris torresiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Dryopteris setigera

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Common Name: Sensitive Fern, Bead Fern
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Onoclea sensibilis var. sensibilis
LESS THAN PLANTS National Database: Onoclea sensibilis
LESS THAN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Onoclea sensibilis 011-07-001

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Common Name: Netted Chain Fern, Net-veined Chain Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Lorinseria areolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Woodwardia areolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Woodwardia areolata 012-01-002
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Lorinseria areolata

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Common Name: Ebony Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Asplenium platyneuron
GREATER THAN PLANTS National Database: Asplenium platyneuron +
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Asplenium platyneuron 013-01-003

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"Whoever the men were who designed the geographical biscuit cutter which sliced out the Old North State, they succeeded so well botanically that one might think of them as possessed with less political sense than vegetational acumen." — B.W. Wells, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina