4024

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it on moist to dry outcrops of calcareous rocks, including coquina limestone ("marl") in the outer Coastal Plain, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Deciduous
2-pinnate-pinnatifid

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia p126
• Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p114

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Cystopteris tennesseensis   FAMILY Cystopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cystopteris tennesseensis   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of West Virginia (Strausbaugh & Core, 1978)
Cystopteris ×tennesseensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-03-003:
Cystopteris tennesseensis   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

(?) -
Cystopteris fragilis var. tennesseensis