Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Asplenium rhizophyllum
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Asplenium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asplenium rhizophyllum
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 013-01-001:
Asplenium rhizophyllum
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Camptosorus rhizophyllus
COMMON NAME:
Walking Fern
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_carh8_001_lvd
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Ron Lance rwl_a_rhizophyllum
February Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm0503c_19
March Oconee County SC
Oconee Station/Station Cove
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Keith Bradley kab_a_rhizophyllum_0906
March Polk County NC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_rhizophyllum_7
March
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_arhizophyllum_7826
April
Sori scattered irregularly throughout blade at vein junctures, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm140418_338
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Sam Pratt sbp_20140418_154638
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_arhizophyllum_2518
July
Blade usually heart-shaped or somewhat eared at base, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_arhizophyllum_2521
July
Fronds narrowly linear-deltoid with long fine tip. Tips touch ground & root, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_arhizophyllum_4913b
September
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Asplenium rhizophyllum
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asplenium rhizophyllum
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 013-01-001:
Asplenium rhizophyllum
FAMILY
Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Camptosorus rhizophyllus
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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon in NC Mtns, rare in NC Piedmont & Coastal Plain
Look for it in moist outcrops of calcareous sedimentary, calcareous metamorphic, or mafic metamorphic rocks, such as limestone, dolostone, calcareous siltstone, amphibolite, mostly at low to moderate elevations, rarely to 1500m or higher, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple - narrowly deltate to linear-lanceolate
Leaves clustered, radiating from a short erect rhizome
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia p106
- Ferns of the Smokies p61
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p195
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p140
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p074
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p339