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Your search found 35 taxa in the family Aspidiaceae, a fern family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Southern Lady Fern
Look for it in moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Lady Fern
Look for it in moist forests, on rock outcrops on grassy balds at high elevations
Rare
Native
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Common Name:
Silvery Glade Fern, Silvery Spleenwort
Look for it in moist forests, cove forests
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Glade Fern
Look for it in very nutrient-rich loamy or seepy forests, over calcareous sedimentary (such as limestone or dolostone) or mafic metamorphic or igneous rocks (such as greenstone or amphibolite)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Japanese Painted Fern
Look for it in suburban woodlands, lawns; commonly planted as an ornamental, rarely naturalizing
Waif(s)
Non-native: Japan
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Common Name:
Japanese false spleenwort
Look for it in swamp forests, disturbed areas
Uncommon, introduced & naturalized in the Southeast
Non-native: southeast Asia
Common Name:
Rusty Cliff Fern, Rusty Woodsia
Look for it on cliffs of amphibolite, greenstone, other rocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Appalachian Woodsia, Appalachian Cliff Fern, Mountain Woodsia
Look for it on cliffs of sandstone, shale, granite, granitic gneiss, and hornblende gneiss
Rare, endemic to the Southern & Central Appalachians
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia
Look for it on rock outcrops of various sorts, moist talus, terrestrial near rock outcrops
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lowland Bladder Fern, Spreading Bladder Fern
Look for it in rich woods or on moss- and soil-covered talus in boulderfields, occasionally on ledges of rock outcrops
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont & Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern
Look for it on moist outcrops and talus of calcareous rocks, rarely up to 1500m in elevation
Uncommon in Mountains, rare in Piedmont (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on moist to dry outcrops of calcareous rocks, including coquina limestone ("marl") in the outer Coastal Plain
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fragile Fern, Brittle Fern, Brittle Bladder Fern
Look for it on cliffs, ascending in our area to 1650m
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Mackay's Bladder Fern, Mackay's Fragile Fern, Upland Bladder Fern
Look for it on moist outcrops and cliffs of metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, occasionally in moist soils near rock outcrops or moist soil banks
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Marginal Wood-fern, Marginal Shield Fern
Look for it in rock outcrops, boulderfield forests, other rocky forests
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Evergreen Wood-fern, Fancy Fern, Intermediate Wood-fern
Look for it in cove forests, other moist rocky forests, over a variety of substrates
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spinulose Wood-fern, Toothed Wood-fern
Look for it in acidic, organic-rich bogs, swamps, less frequently in most rocky ravines, rich forests, and sloping rock outcrops
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mountain Wood-fern
Look for it in spruce-fir forests, northern hardwood forests
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Crested Wood-fern, Crested Shield Fern
Look for it in bogs, swamp forests
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Wood-fern, Southern Shield Fern
Look for it in blackwater swamp forests
Uncommon in GA & SC, rare in NC, endemic to Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Log Fern
Look for it in swamps, seepage bogs, and calcareus floodplains, typically associated with calcareous substrates
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Goldie's Wood-fern
Look for it in boulderfield forests, rich cove forests, seepage swamps, esp over calcareous sedimentary or mafic metamorphic or igneous rocks
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Autumn Fern, Japanese Red Shieldfern, Japanese Shieldfern
Look for it in suburban woodlands, especially in ravines and along creeks
Uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare elsewhere
Non-native: Japan, China & Korea
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Common Name:
Christmas Fern
Look for it in moist to dry forests & woodlands, esp slopes, ravines, and small stream bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Japanese Holly-fern, Asian Net-veined Holly Fern
Look for it in ditches, disturbed swamps, moist ravines, old mortar of brick walls
Rare
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Fortune's Holly-fern, Fortune's Net-veined Holly Fern
Look for it on roadside banks, rock outcrops, old mortar of brick walls
Rare
Non-native: southeast China
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Common Name:
Broad Beech Fern
Look for it in mesic to submesic forests
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
New York Fern
Look for it in mesic forests, bottomland forests, bogs, submesic forests
Common (uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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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)
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Kunth's Maiden Fern, Southern Shield Fern, Southern Wood Fern
Look for it on coquina limestone (marl) outcrops, calcareous bluffs & sinkhole slopes, also adventive on and around coquina limestone (marl) riprap around small bridges and ditches and in suburban forests
Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Coastal Plain of SC & GA (naturalized elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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Common Name:
Downy Maiden Fern, Soft Fern, Downy Shield Fern
Look for it in moist forests, streambanks, swamps, disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: tropical & subtropical Asia & Africa
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Common Name:
Marsh Fern
Look for it in bogs, marshes (including freshwater tidal marshes), and bottomland forests
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mariana Maiden Fern, Swordfern, False Maiden Fern
Look for it in disturbed areas, and to be increasingly invasive in natural habitats (esp in the southern parts of our area)
Uncommon, but increasingly invasive in natural habitats
Non-native: Asian & African tropics
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Common Name:
Sensitive Fern, Bead Fern
Look for it in marshes, swamps, wet disturbed places
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Narrow Sword Fern, Tuber Sword Fern, Fishbone Fern, Ladder Fern
Look for it in moist places
Rare
Non-native, original distribution obscure
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