Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Lorinseria areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Lorinseria from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-002:
Woodwardia areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lorinseria areolata
COMMON NAME:
Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_loar7_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_woar_004_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm150412_242
April Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm150412_245
April Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm200403_3511
April Greenville County SC
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Emily B. Sessa ebswareolata_4766
June
Pinnae tend to be acute or acuminate (vs. Onoclea's obtuse), per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
fronds of Netted Chain Fern and Sensitive Fern
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JK Marlow s030628_de
June Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
[Sterile frond on left, fertile on right.] Leaves strongly dimorphic, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0007c_12
July Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_woodwardia_areolata_4
August
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JK Marlow s040815_a
August Greenville County SC
Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210907_3587
September Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm091006_010
October Greenville County SC
Prominent veins conspicuously netted, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
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JK Marlow jkm091006_016
October Greenville County SC
Sori are large, elongate, and in two chains like links of sausage, per Ferns of the Smokies.
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JK Marlow jkm101112_128
November Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Fertile leaves are much contracted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow s071123_a2
November Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
Pinnae of fertile leaves with 2 rows of linear sori; indusia firm & persistent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Lorinseria areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-002:
Woodwardia areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lorinseria areolata
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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomands, pocosins, 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.
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Pinnatifid
Leaves spaced along a long-creeping rhizome
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 p112
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas p119
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p125
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p204
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p236