Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Myriopteris tomentosa
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
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This is a woolly-looking species, with a glaucous, pale whitish-gray-green blade. The stipes are very hairy and scaly, about 3-4" long, shorter than the blade, which averages about 6-7" long and about 2.5" wide. The blade is tripinnate, with about 15-25 pairs of pinnae. This species and the others in the genus have sori in rows along the margins of the pinnules on the blade underside. These pinnule margins are strongly rolled-under, such that the sori are usually hidden from view. Woolly Lipfern and Hairy Lipfern often grow together. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cheilanthes tomentosa
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Myriopteris tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH The global flora: a practical guide to vascular plant species of the world (Christenhusz, Fay, & Byng, 2018)
Hemionitis bradburii
SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Cheilanthes tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cheilanthes tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2 (1993)
Cheilanthes tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-03-003:
Cheilanthes tomentosa FAMILY Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cheilanthes lanosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Cheilanthes tomentosa
COMMON NAME:
Woolly Lipfern
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_chto2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm230228_1361
February Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Pinnule margins are strongly rolled-under, such that the sori are usually hidden from view, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm090425_116
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
Fronds curl up when dry but become fresh & green again with rain, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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JK Marlow jkm090425_119
April
Nine Times Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4308
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4311
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4311b
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
The blade's ultimate segments pinched at the base so as to appear beadlike, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4315
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm220409_6620
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm220409_6621
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm220409_6625
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm220409_6628
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm110513_507
May Greenville County SC
Camp Old Indian
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JK Marlow jkm200508_4774
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
The stipes are very hairy and scaly, about 3-4" long, shorter than blades, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_ctomentosa0062
June
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_ctomentosa0062b
June
A woolly-looking species, with a glaucous, pale whitish-gray-green blade, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_ctomentosa0067
June
Pinnules deeply cut into oblong lobes, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_ctomentosa0072
June
Rachis brown, densely hairy and scaly, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_ctomentosa0078
June
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Emily B. Sessa ebs_ctomentosa0113
June
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Myriopteris tomentosa
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cheilanthes tomentosa
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Myriopteris tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The global flora: a practical guide to vascular plant species of the world (Christenhusz, Fay, & Byng, 2018)
Hemionitis bradburii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Cheilanthes tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cheilanthes tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Cheilanthes tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-03-003:
Cheilanthes tomentosa
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cheilanthes lanosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Cheilanthes tomentosa
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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Habitat: Dry outcrops of intermediate or calcareous metamorphic, igneous, or sedimentary rocks (including sandstone outcrops in the Coastal Plain of GA and SC), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Evergreen
3-pinnate
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 (Snyder & Bruce, 1986) p058
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014) p249
- Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012) p165
- Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005) p50
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p173
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p205
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p096
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