Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Anchistea virginica
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Anchistea from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia virginica
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-001:
Woodwardia virginica
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Anchistea virginica
COMMON NAME:
Virginia Chain-fern
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_anvi6_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_wovi_002_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm160416_220
April Lowndes County GA
Fronds upright, scattered along rhizomes and emerging individually, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm160416_222
April Lowndes County GA
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JK Marlow jkm160416_335
April Lowndes County GA
Blade leathery, glossy, with around 15 pairs of closely spaced pinnae, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm0505s_36
May Williamsburg County SC
Stipe is dark purple-brown, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm150529_104
May Spartanburg County SC
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Emily B. Sessa ebswvirginica_1119
June
Small veins form a row of areoles each side of midvein; all others are free, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
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Emily B. Sessa ebswvirginica_4188
July
Sori chainlike, elongate, along midvein & at tip of pinnae lobes, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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Emily B. Sessa ebswvirginica_4203
July
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_w_virginica_virchain2
August
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JK Marlow jkm081009_317
October Bamberg County SC
Lisa Matthews Memorial Bay
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JK Marlow s081009_b
October Bamberg County SC
Lisa Matthews Memorial Bay
Pinnae lanceolate. Lobes short, blunt, smooth-margined, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
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JK Marlow s081009_b2
October Bamberg County SC
Lisa Matthews Memorial Bay
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JK Marlow s081009_b3
October Bamberg County SC
Lisa Matthews Memorial Bay
Sori on each side of pinnae midrib, also paralleling pinnule midveins, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Anchistea virginica
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia virginica
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-001:
Woodwardia virginica
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Anchistea virginica
1958
Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Look for it in moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomlands, pocosins, sometimes in standing water, as in periodically flooded coastal plain depression ponds, 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.
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Deciduous
1-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves in rows, spaced along a long-creeping rhizome
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
A thick, horizontal, 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 p110
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas p122
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p238