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Common Name:
Japanese Climbing Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lygodium japonicum FAMILY: Lygodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lygodium japonicum FAMILY: Lygodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lygodium japonicum 008-01-002 FAMILY: Schizaeaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas
Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Southern Lady Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Athyrium asplenioides FAMILY: Athyriaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Athyrium filix-femina ssp. asplenioides FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Athyrium asplenioides 011-01-001 FAMILY: Aspidiaceae
Habitat: Moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Silvery Glade Fern, Silvery Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Deparia acrostichoides FAMILY: Athyriaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Deparia acrostichoides FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Athyrium thelypterioides 011-01-002 FAMILY: Aspidiaceae
Habitat: 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
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Dryopteris erythrosora FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands, especially in ravines and along creeks
Uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare elsewhere
Non-native: Japan, China & Korea
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Common Name:
Christmas Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Polystichum acrostichoides FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Polystichum acrostichoides var. acrostichoides FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Polystichum acrostichoides 011-05-001 FAMILY: Aspidiaceae
Habitat: Moist to dry forests and woodlands, especially slopes, ravines, and small stream bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Japanese Holly-fern, Asian Net-veined Holly Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyrtomium falcatum FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyrtomium falcatum FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
Habitat: Ditches, disturbed swamps, moist ravines, old mortar of brick walls
Rare
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Mariana Maiden-fern, Swordfern, False Maiden-fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Macrothelypteris torresiana FAMILY: Thelypteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Macrothelypteris torresiana FAMILY: Thelypteridaceae
Habitat: Wet hammocks, cypress swamps, streamsides, moist forests, disturbed areas, increasingly invasive in natural habitats (especially in the southern parts of our area)
Uncommon (rare in NC) (rare in SC Mountains)
Non-native: Asian & African tropics
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Common Name:
Sensitive Fern, Bead Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Onoclea sensibilis FAMILY: Onocleaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Onoclea sensibilis FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Onoclea sensibilis 011-07-001 FAMILY: Aspidiaceae
Habitat: Marshes, swamps, ditches, wet disturbed places
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lorinseria areolata FAMILY: Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Woodwardia areolata FAMILY: Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Woodwardia areolata 012-01-002 FAMILY: Blechnaceae
Habitat: Moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomlands, pocosins, wet hammocks
Common (uncommon in NC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ebony Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Asplenium platyneuron FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Asplenium platyneuron var. platyneuron FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Asplenium platyneuron 013-01-003 FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
Habitat: Moist to dry soils of forests, woodlands, old fields; also on outcrops, especially of calcareous rocks and in masonry crevices, at low to moderate elevations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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