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Your search found 5 taxa.

flower (or pollen cone) --- sepals or bracts leaf (or frond) fruit (or sori) sortable table of key characters habitat, distribution, plant origin, and/or botanical drawing

Common Name: Lowland Bladder Fern, Spreading Bladder Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Cystopteris protrusa
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cystopteris protrusa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Cystopteris protrusa 011-03-001
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Cystopteris fragilis var. protrusa

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Common Name: Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Cystopteris bulbifera
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cystopteris bulbifera
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Cystopteris bulbifera 011-03-002
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Cystopteris bulbifera

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Common Name: Tennessee Bladder Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Cystopteris tennesseensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cystopteris tennesseensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Cystopteris tennesseensis 011-03-003
(?) Cystopteris fragilis var. tennesseensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of West Virginia (Strausbaugh & Core, 1978) Cystopteris Xtennesseensis

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Common Name: Fragile Fern, Brittle Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Cystopteris fragilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cystopteris fragilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Cystopteris fragilis var. fragilis
LESS THAN Flora of West Virginia (Strausbaugh & Core, 1978) Cystopteris fragilis

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Common Name: Mackay's Bladder Fern, Mackay's Fragile Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Cystopteris tenuis
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cystopteris tenuis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952) Cystopteris fragilis var. mackayi
LESS THAN Flora of West Virginia (Strausbaugh & Core, 1978) Cystopteris fragilis

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"The natural world, to be seen truly, must be seen whole, even as a mosaic can be perceived only when its multiple fragments are joined. Once you have identified a plant, what other organisms might you expect to find in its company? What patterns reveal themselves when we look at the entire complex of organisms in, on, or around a plant?" — John Eastman, Book of Field and Roadside.