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Fern/Fern ally

Non-native: Japan, China & Korea

Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Look for it in suburban woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Southeast

 

...Moist

LEAVES:
Evergreen (semi-evergreen in cold climates)
Bipinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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

• New Invaders of the Southeast p023

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Dryopteris erythrosora   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae