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

Rare

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
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 (5/21/15):
Christella species 1 (=kunthii)   FAMILY Thelypteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Thelypteris kunthii   FAMILY Thelypteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 011-06-004:
Thelypteris kunthii   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

LESS THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Christella normalis