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Your search found 9 taxa.

flower (or pollen cone) --- sepals or bracts leaf (or frond) fruit (or sori) sortable table of key characters habitat, distribution, plant origin, and/or botanical drawing

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 Flora of North America Athyrium filix-femina var. asplenioides

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Athyrium asplenioides 011-01-001

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: Autumn Fern, Japanese Red Shield Fern, Japanese Shield Fern
Weakley's Flora: (6/30/18) Dryopteris erythrosora

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Common Name: Christmas Fern
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Polystichum acrostichoides
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Polystichum acrostichoides var. acrostichoides

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database Polystichum acrostichoides var. lonchitoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Polystichum acrostichoides 011-05-001

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Common Name: Mariana Maiden Fern, Swordfern, False Maiden Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Macrothelypteris torresiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Macrothelypteris torresiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Dryopteris setigera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Thelypteris torresiana

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

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Common Name: Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern
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
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Asplenium platyneuron +
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Asplenium platyneuron 013-01-003

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