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Your search found 17 taxa in the family Pteridaceae, Maidenhair Fern family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Northern Maidenhair Fern
Look for it in moist forests & cliffs, esp over calcareous or mafic rocks, sometimes in seasonal seepage
Common (uncommon in Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Maidenhair Fern, Venus-hair Fern
Look for it on moist calcareous substrates, in the Coastal Plain on "marl" (coquina limestone) (NC & SC), on calcareous clay bluffs (GA), and adventive on lime mortar of old buildings and walls, in the Mountains on limestone or other calcareous sedimentary rocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hay-scented Fern, Pasture Fern, Boulder Fern
Look for it in rocky or dry woodlands and forests, rock outcrops, pastures, clearings, roadbanks
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Alabama Lipfern, Smooth Lipfern
Look for it on dry outcrops of limestone
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hairy Lipfern
Look for it on dry outcrops of felsic or intermediate-composition metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks
Common to uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Woolly Lipfern
Look for it on dry outcrops of intermediate or calcareous metamorphic, igneous, or sedimentary rocks (including sandstone outcrops in the Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Cliffbrake
Look for it on outcrops of limestone and other rocks (usually either calcareous, subcalcareous, or mafic), rarely on masonry walls
Common in GA Mountains, uncommon in NC Mtns, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wright's Cliffbrake
Look for it on south-facing outcrops of Carolina slate, "rich" granitic rock gneiss, and other rock types
Rare
Native to sw. US, with a few, remarkable disjunct occurrences in c. NC & w. SC
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Common Name:
Arizona Cliffbrake
Look for it on granitic outcrops
Rare
Native to southwestern US, with disjunct populations in SC
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Common Name:
Wavy Cloak Fern, Wavy Scaly Cloak Fern
Look for it on granitic outcrops and boulders, outcrops of acidic gneiss
Rare
Native to southwestern US, with disjunct populations in GA & w. SC
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Common Name:
Copper Fern, Hispid Bommer Fern, Hairy Bommer
Look for it on exposed rock
Rare
Native to southwestern US, with a disjunct population in w. SC
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Common Name:
Eastern Bracken, Brake
Look for it mainly in dry woodlands, and (depending on subspecies) heath balds or sandhills and flatwoods
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Southern Bracken
Look for it mainly in dry sandy or rocky woodlands, often locally abundant in longleaf pine sandhills and pine flatwoods
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spider Brake, Wall Fern, Huguenot Fern
Look for it on old walls with lime mortar
Rare
Non-native: Tropics
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Common Name:
Ladder Brake
Look for it on old walls with lime mortar
Rare
Non-native: east Asia
Look for it in swamps, wet hammocks, solution holes
Native to Florida
Look for it in moist disturbed areas. It is rather commonly cultivated, and escaping and establishing vegetatively by rhizome
Non-native: tropical east Asia & South Pacific islands
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