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Habitat: Marshes, swamps, ditches, wet disturbed places
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Pinnae of fertile blade erect, 2-7cm long, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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Pinnae have undulate to shallowly lobed margins, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
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Pinnae tend to be opposite (those of Woodwardia areolata tend to be alternate), per Weakley's Flora.
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"Sensitive" to cold (not to touch) and withering at the first touch of frost, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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The rachis is winged, joining the opposite pinnae to each other , per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
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Fertile leaves are much reduced, but taller, narrower, and twice-pinnate, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
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Fertile leaves' pinna lobes tightly rolled around the sori, "beadlike", per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
Habitat: Moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomlands, pocosins, wet hammocks
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Pinnae tend to be acute or acuminate (vs. Onoclea's obtuse), per Weakley's Flora.
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[Sterile frond on left, fertile on right.] Leaves strongly dimorphic, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Prominent veins conspicuously netted, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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Sori are large, elongate, and in two chains like links of sausage, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
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Pinnae of fertile leaves with 2 rows of linear sori; indusia firm & persistent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).