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
Polypodium virginianum

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Polypodiaceae
Polypodium virginianum

LESS THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Polypodiaceae
014-01-001
Polypodium virginianum

Common Name:
Common Rockcap Fern

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Evergreen

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it on moist rocks, per Weakley's Flora



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...Moist

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 p114




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JK Marlow      jkm0304g_01


April
Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

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

 

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May
Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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

 

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JK Marlow      jkm0307g_19


July
Greenville County SC
Jones Gap State Park

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

 

"Purple (botanically speaking) is a dreadfully abused term which is made to stand for half the rainbow; it means anything from crimson to violet." — F. Schuyler Mathews, Fieldbook of American Wild Flowers