Your search found 6 image(s) of fertile fronds of Netted Chain Fern and Sensitive Fern.
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Sensitive Fern, Bead Fern
Onoclea sensibilis var. sensibilis
Look for it in marshes, swamps, wet disturbed places
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Pinnae of fertile blade erect, 2-7cm long, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
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Fertile leaves are much reduced, but taller, narrower, and twice-pinnate, per Ferns of the Smokies.
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Fertile leaves' pinna lobes tightly rolled around the sori, "beadlike", per Ferns of the Smokies.
Netted Chain Fern, Net-veined Chain Fern
Lorinseria areolata
Look for it in moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomands, pocosins
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[Sterile frond on left, fertile on right.] Leaves strongly dimorphic, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Sori are large, elongate, and in two chains like links of sausage, per Ferns of the Smokies.
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Pinnae of fertile leaves with 2 rows of linear sori; indusia firm & persistent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.