Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Asplenium trichomanes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Asplenium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asplenium trichomanes ssp. trichomanes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 013-01-004:
Asplenium trichomanes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Asplenium trichomanes
COMMON NAME:
Maidenhair Spleenwort
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JK Marlow jkm150424_774
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm150424_776
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Blade 3-15cm long and about 1cm wide, tapering slightly at both ends, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
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JK Marlow jkm150424_777
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm180427_1526
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm180427_1533
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm180427_1555
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm220419_6981
April Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm220419_6983
April Pickens County SC
Old leaf rachises often with persistent projections left from the disarticulation of the pinnae, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_atrichomanes_0235
June
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_atrichomanes_0239
June
Rachis dark purple-brown, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
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Tim Spira tps_atrichomanes_spray
June
Pinnae ~ 1/4" long, rounded or slightly oval, opposite and slightly stalked, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm160702_198
July Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm160702_199
July Jackson County NC
Sori elongate along veins; indusia attached along one side of the sori, per The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas.
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JK Marlow jkm190913_1406
September Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm190913_1407
September Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Asplenium trichomanes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asplenium trichomanes ssp. trichomanes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 013-01-004:
Asplenium trichomanes
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Asplenium trichomanes
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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Mountains (rare to uncommon in Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Look for it on moist outcrops of slightly to strongly calcareous sedimentary or metamorphic rocks and moderately to strongly mafic metamorphic and igneous rocks, such as limestone, dolostone, mafic and intermediate gneisses and schists, amphibolite, most typically in strong shade, as under overhangs, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
LEAVES:
Evergreen
Pinnate
Leaves clustered on a short, creeping to erect rhizome
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia p084
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas p106
- Ferns of the Smokies p64
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p115
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p080