Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Polypodiaceae
Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Polypodiaceae
Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana

LESS THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Polypodiaceae
014-01-002
Polypodium polypodioides

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950):
Polypodium polypodioides var. michauxianum

Common Name:
Resurrection Fern, Scaly Polypody

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Evergreen

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it on tree limbs and trunks (esp when leaning) and on rocks, per Weakley's Flora



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Leaves:
Pinnatifid

Flower:
Summer/Fall

Fruit:
Summer/Fall

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p357
Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p087




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image of Polypodium polypodioides, image of Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana
JK Marlow      jkm0502a_14


February
Greenville County SC
Chandler Heritage Preserve

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

image of Polypodium polypodioides, image of Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana
JK Marlow      jkm0502a_16


February
Greenville County SC
Chandler Heritage Preserve

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

image of Polypodium polypodioides, image of Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana
JK Marlow      jkm0303g_11


March
Beaufort County SC
Hunting Island State Park

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

image of Polypodium polypodioides, image of Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana
JK Marlow      jkm0303g_16


March
Beaufort County SC
Hunting Island State Park

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

image of Polypodium polypodioides, image of Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana
JK Marlow      jkm0410j_29


October
Greenville County SC
Chandler Heritage Preserve

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

image of Polypodium polypodioides, image of Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana
JK Marlow      jkm0410j_30


October
Greenville County SC
Chandler Heritage Preserve

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

"One steps with more care in the wild when the inhabitants of the forest are known just as one feels and behaves differently among friends as opposed to strangers." — Daniel Reed