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Your search found 9 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Japanese Climbing Fern
Look for it in disturbed areas, the leaves (up to 30 m in length!) climbing into the canopy of trees in swamp forests and other wet habitats
Rare outside of Coastal Plain & north of SC
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Southern Lady Fern
Look for it in moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Silvery Glade Fern, Silvery Spleenwort
Look for it in moist forests, cove forests
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Autumn Fern, Japanese Red Shield Fern, Japanese Shield Fern
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Rare
Non-native: Japan, China & Korea
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Common Name:
Christmas Fern
Look for it in moist to dry forests & woodlands, esp slopes, ravines, and small stream bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mariana Maiden Fern, Swordfern, False Maiden Fern
Look for it in disturbed areas, and to be increasingly invasive in natural habitats (esp in the southern parts of our area)
Uncommon, but increasingly invasive in natural habitats
Non-native: Asian & African tropics
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Common Name:
Sensitive Fern, Bead Fern
Look for it in marshes, swamps, wet disturbed places
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern
Look for it in moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomands, pocosins
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ebony Spleenwort
Look for it in moist to dry soils of forests, woodlands, old fields, also on outcrops, esp of calcareous rocks, & in masonry crevices, at low to moderate elevations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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