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Sensitive Fern, Bead Fern
Onoclea sensibilis var. sensibilis
Look for it in marshes, swamps, wet disturbed places
Pinnae of fertile blade erect, 2-7cm long, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
Fertile leaves are much reduced, but taller, narrower, and twice-pinnate, per Ferns of the Smokies.
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
[Sterile frond on left, fertile on right.] Leaves strongly dimorphic, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Sori are large, elongate, and in two chains like links of sausage, per Ferns of the Smokies.
Pinnae of fertile leaves with 2 rows of linear sori; indusia firm & persistent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.