OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cystopteris bulbifera   FAMILY Cystopteridaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cystopteris bulbifera   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

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

Cystopteris bulbifera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Cystopteris bulbifera

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

Cystopteris bulbifera

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-03-002:

Cystopteris bulbifera   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Cystopteris bulbifera

 

COMMON NAME:
Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_cybu3_007_lvd

        

image of Cystopteris bulbifera, Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_fibu_001_lvd

        

image of Cystopteris bulbifera, Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern

JK Marlow    jkm090404_047

April    Walker County    GA

The Pocket on Pigeon Mountain

image of Cystopteris bulbifera, Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_cbulbifera4239

July        

Similar to C. fragilis, but blade much longer and more tapering, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Cystopteris bulbifera, Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_cbulbifera4776

September        

image of Cystopteris bulbifera, Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_cbulbifera4779

September        

image of Cystopteris bulbifera, Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_cbulbifera4780

September        

Bulblets resembling small green peas at base of, or along costa of, pinnae, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Cystopteris bulbifera, Bulblet Bladder Fern, Bulblet Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_cbulbifera4780b

September        

Sori between margin and midvein of pinnule, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cystopteris bulbifera   FAMILY Cystopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cystopteris bulbifera   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Cystopteris bulbifera

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-03-002:
Cystopteris bulbifera   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Cystopteris bulbifera

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2920

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Moist outcrops and talus of calcareous rocks, rarely up to 1500 m elevation, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Mountains of GA & NC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
2-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves clustered on a short-creeping rhizome

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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