Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Bommeria hispida
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more in Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas.
Read about the discovery of this fern in the Jocassee Gorges of South Carolina.
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bommeria hispida
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Bommeria hispida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The global flora: a practical guide to vascular plant species of the world (Christenhusz, Fay, & Byng, 2018)
Hemionitis hispida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Bommeria hispida
COMMON NAME:
Copper Fern, Hispid Bommer Fern, Hairy Bommer
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmbommeria_hispida
December Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Leaf blades small, broadly 5-sided in outline (pentagonal), per The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmbommeria_hispidab
December Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Pinnae with straight needle-like hairs on upper surface, per The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Bommeria hispida
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bommeria hispida
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Bommeria hispida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The global flora: a practical guide to vascular plant species of the world (Christenhusz, Fay, & Byng, 2018)
Hemionitis hispida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Bommeria hispida
4213
Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Native to southwestern US, with a disjunct population in w. SC
Documented growing wild in - - SC
Rare
Look for it on exposed rock, 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.
LEAVES:
Evergreen?
Blade pedately divided into 3 main segments, these deeply pinnate-pinnatifid
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes prostrate, long-creeping, often branched
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!