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Your search found 3 taxa in the family Lygodiaceae, Climbing Fern family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

Common Name:
American Climbing Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Lygodium palmatum FAMILY: Lygodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lygodium palmatum FAMILY: Lygodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lygodium palmatum 008-01-001 FAMILY: Schizaeaceae
Look for it in bogs, moist thickets, swamp forests, sandstone outcrops, roadside ditches and roadbanks, in strongly acid soils
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Japanese Climbing Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Lygodium japonicum FAMILY: Lygodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lygodium japonicum FAMILY: Lygodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lygodium japonicum 008-01-002 FAMILY: Schizaeaceae
Look for it in disturbed areas, the leaves (up to 30 m in length!) climbing into the canopy of trees in swamp forests and other wet habitats
Rare outside of Coastal Plain & north of SC
Non-native: east Asia

Common Name:
Old World Climbing Fern, Small-leaf Climbing Fern
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Lygodium microphyllum FAMILY: Lygodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lygodium microphyllum FAMILY: Lygodiaceae
Look for it in swamps, hammocks, disturbed areas
Non-native: southeast Asia
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