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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (uncommon in Mountains)

Look for it in bogs, marshes (including freshwater tidal marshes), and bottomland forests, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Deciduous
1-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves closely spaced along a widely creeping rhizome

FRUIT:
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 p146
• The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas p304
• Ferns of the Smokies p56
• Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p212

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens   FAMILY Thelypteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens   FAMILY Thelypteridaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-06-005:
Thelypteris palustris   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Dryopteris thelypteris var. pubescens

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