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Learn more about Lygodium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Schizaeales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Lygodium palmatum
FAMILY
Lygodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lygodium palmatum
FAMILY
Lygodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 008-01-001:
Lygodium palmatum
FAMILY
Schizaeaceae
COMMON NAME:
American Climbing Fern
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JK Marlow s060903_c
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Sterile pinnae borne on forked stalks, divided into paired palmate pinnules, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
JK Marlow s060903_d
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Fertile pinnules smaller & more dissectd than sterile, borne at vine tips, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.