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Your search found 8 taxa in the family Aspleniaceae, Spleenwort family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Walking Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Asplenium rhizophyllum FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Asplenium rhizophyllum FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Asplenium rhizophyllum 013-01-001 FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
Habitat: Moist outcrops of calcareous sedimentary, calcareous metamorphic, or mafic metamorphic rocks, such as limestone, dolostone, calcareous siltstone, amphibolite, mostly at low to moderate elevations, rarely to 1500 m or higher
Common in GA Mountains, uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lobed Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Asplenium pinnatifidum FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Asplenium pinnatifidum FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Asplenium pinnatifidum 013-01-002 FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
Habitat: Fairly moist to very dry outcrops of felsic sedimentary or (mostly low-grade) metamorphic rocks, such as sandstone, phyllite, and schist, at low to moderate elevations
Uncommon in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ebony Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Asplenium platyneuron FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Asplenium platyneuron FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Asplenium platyneuron 013-01-003 FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
Habitat: Moist to dry soils of forests, woodlands, old fields; also on outcrops, especially of calcareous rocks and in masonry crevices, at low to moderate elevations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Maidenhair Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Asplenium trichomanes FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Asplenium trichomanes ssp. trichomanes FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Asplenium trichomanes 013-01-004 FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
Habitat: Moist outcrops of slightly to strongly calcareous sedimentary or metamorphic rocks and moderately to strongly mafic metamorphic and igneous rocks, such as limestone, dolostone, mafic and intermediate gneisses and schists, amphibolite, most typically in strong shade, as under overhangs
Common in Mountains of GA & NC, uncommon in Piedmont of GA & NC, rare in SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Blackstem Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Asplenium resiliens FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Asplenium resiliens FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Asplenium resiliens 013-01-005 FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
Habitat: Moist to dry outcrops of calcareous sedimentary or metamorphic rocks, such as limestone, dolostone, coquina, or marble, sometimes on narrow seams of calcareous materials in otherwise acidic rocks, rarely on mortar or concrete, mostly at low to moderate elevations, but remarkably on Grandfather Mountain at over 1800 m
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Marl Spleenwort, Carolina Spleenwort, Wagner's Spleenwort, Morzenti's Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Asplenium heteroresiliens FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Asplenium ×heteroresiliens [heterochroum × resiliens] FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Asplenium heteroresiliens 013-01-006 FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
Habitat: Fairly moist outcrops of calcareous sedimentary rocks, such as coquina limestone (‘marl’), along small blackwater streams or larger rivers, at low elevations, and rarely also on old ruins made of tabby (a cement made from lime, sand, and oyster shells)
Rare and scattered
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Single-sorus Spleenwort, One-sorus Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Asplenium monanthes FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Asplenium monanthes FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Asplenium monanthes 013-01-007 FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
Habitat: Moist calcareous situations, in the mountains in moist grottoes of calcareous to semi-calcareous metamorphic rocks (such as mylonite or marble) near waterfalls in humid escarpment gorges with high rainfall, on limestone talus in collapsed sinkhole mouth, or on moist Coastal Plain limestone outcrops
Rare and scattered
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Mountain Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Asplenium montanum FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Asplenium montanum FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Asplenium montanum 013-01-009 FAMILY: Aspleniaceae
Habitat: Moist to dry outcrops of metamorphic, sedimentary, or igneous rocks, such as gneiss, schist, amphibolite, quartzite, rhyolite, sandstone, mostly at moderate to high elevations (up to over 2000 m), but in the Piedmont to as low as 150 m
Common in Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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