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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

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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

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia p128
• The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas p310
• Ferns of the Smokies p72
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p203
• Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p232
• Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops p94

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

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