3717

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it in NC and WV in acid peat bogs at about 1000 meters in elevation (in DE, NJ, and VA in acid seepage swamps in the Coastal Plain), per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Deciduous
1-pinnate-pinnatifid

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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

• Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p214

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Coryphopteris simulata   FAMILY Thelypteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Thelypteris simulata   FAMILY Thelypteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Coryphopteris simulata (Thelypteridaceae), A New Combination For The Massachusetts Fern (Fawcett, 2018)
Coryphopteris simulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Parathelypteris simulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Dryopteris simulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Thelypteris simulata