Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dryopteris marginalis
FAMILY
Dryopteridaceae
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Learn more about Dryopteris from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dryopteris marginalis
FAMILY
Dryopteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Dryopteris marginalis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Dryopteris marginalis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-04-001:
Dryopteris marginalis FAMILY Aspidiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Dryopteris marginalis
COMMON NAME:
Marginal Woodfern, Marginal Shield-fern
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_drma4_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm130114_139b
January Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
Easily IDed by untoothed margin, marginal sori, and evergreen habit, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm130225_329
February Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
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JK Marlow jkm230328_2139
March Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230328_2165
March Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230328_2167
March Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230328_2167b
March Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Stipe has many pale brown scales, especially at base, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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Emily B. Sessa ebsdmarginalis_8802
April
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4172
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4173
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4176
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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Emily B. Sessa ebsdmarginalis_9401
May
Grows in scattered individual clumps among roots and rocks, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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Emily B. Sessa ebsdmarginalis_0133
June
Sori marginal, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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Emily B. Sessa ebsdmarginalis_0139
June
Indusia peltate, kidney-shaped, prominent, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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Emily B. Sessa ebsdmarginalis_0201
June
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JK Marlow jkm100617_036
June Cherokee County NC
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JK Marlow jkm170818_688
August Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
Round sori with smooth reniform indusia are close to the leaf margins, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm170818_691
August Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm151009_429
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm151009_430
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Inner lower pinnule usually longer than adjacent ones on same side of costa, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm151009_436
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
In Dryopteris the rachis groove is open to receive rachillae grooves, per Flora of Taiwan.
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JK Marlow jkm0511d_04
November Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Sori near the margins; prominent; dark brown when ripe, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmdmarginalis_wadc
Month Unknown Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Blade oblong, ascending and arching, leathery and evergreen, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dryopteris marginalis
FAMILY
Dryopteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dryopteris marginalis
FAMILY
Dryopteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Dryopteris marginalis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Dryopteris marginalis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-04-001:
Dryopteris marginalis
FAMILY
Aspidiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Dryopteris marginalis
496
Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Habitat: rock outcrops, boulderfield forests, other rocky forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Mountains, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
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LEAVES:
Evergreen
2-pinnate to 2-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves in a crown around a ring of buds
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 (Snyder & Bruce, 1986) p150
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014) p147
- Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012) p259
- Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005) p76
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p120
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p198
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p228
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p146
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