1504

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Native to the Coastal Plain of SC & GA (naturalized elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

Look for it on coquina limestone (marl) outcrops, calcareous bluffs & sinkhole slopes, also adventive on and around coquina limestone (marl) riprap around small bridges and ditches and in suburban forests, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Evergreen
1-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves in two short rows on a short-creeping rhizome

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia p142
• The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas p300
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p124

Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Christella species 1 (=kunthii)   FAMILY Thelypteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Thelypteris kunthii   FAMILY Thelypteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Cyclosorus kunthii

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-06-004:
Thelypteris kunthii   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Thelypteris normalis