NameThatPlant.net: Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa

Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa FAMILY Woodsiaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

See herbarium specimens at the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

Learn more about Cliff Fern from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-02-003:
Woodsia obtusa FAMILY Aspidiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Woodsia obtusa

COMMON NAME:
Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia

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image of Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa, Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia

Patrick D. McMillan pdmwobtusa_home1

April Anderson County SC

Blade lanceolate, cut into widely spaced pinnae at right angles to rachis, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa FAMILY Woodsiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-02-003:
Woodsia obtusa FAMILY Aspidiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Woodsia obtusa

1676

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in Coastal Plain)

Look for it on rock outcrops of various sorts, moist talus, terrestrial near rock outcrops, per Weakley's Flora

map
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...Moist ...Variable ...Dry

LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen
1-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves clustered from a rhizome with a few old petiole bases of various lengths

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

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