NameThatPlant.net: Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/13/22):
Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens FAMILY Thelypteridaceae Go to FSUS key

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Learn more about Thelypteris from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

Coryphopteris simulata has a superficial similarity to (and grows in similar, saturated habitats as) the more common Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens. Coryphoteris simulata has veins of the pinna-lobes unbranched, the lower leaf surface with sessile, reddish, resinous glands, and the lower surface of the costae lacking scales (vs. veins of the pinna-lobes mostly Y-forked, lower leaf surface lacking glands, and lower surface of the costae with persistent ovate scales in Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens), per Weakley's Flora (2022)

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)

Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens

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 Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Thelypteris thelypteris

COMMON NAME:
Marsh Fern

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image of Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens, Marsh Fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_drth4_001_lvd

JK Marlow jkm090924_022

September Hancock County ME

Acadia National Park: Wild Gardens of Acadia

Pinnae cut nearly to midvein into rounded or blunt-tipped lobes, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/13/22):
Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens FAMILY Thelypteridaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens

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 Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Thelypteris thelypteris

1506

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: bogs, marshes (including freshwater tidal marshes), and bottomland forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in Mountains)

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

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