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Your search found 12 taxa in the family Dryopteridaceae, Woodfern family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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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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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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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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