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Your search found 5 taxa in the family Dennstaedtiaceae, Bracken Fern family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
Common Name: Hay-scented Fern, Pasture Fern, Boulder Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sitobolium punctilobulum FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Dennstaedtia punctilobula FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Dennstaedtia punctilobula 010-02-001 FAMILY: Pteridaceae
Habitat: Rocky or dry woodlands and forests, rock outcrops, pastures, clearings, roadbanks
Common in Mountains (uncommon in NC Piedmont, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Eastern Bracken, Brake
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Pteridium latiusculum FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum 010-05-001 FAMILY: Pteridaceae
Habitat: Mainly in dry woodlands, forests, and heath balds, up to 1600 m in elevation
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Southern Bracken
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Pteridium pseudocaudatum FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Pteridium aquilinum var. pseudocaudatum FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Pteridium aquilinum var. pseudocaudatum 010-05-001 FAMILY: Pteridaceae
Habitat: Mainly in dry sandy or rocky woodlands, often locally abundant in longleaf pine sandhills and pine flatwoods
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Creeping Bramble Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Hypolepis barringtonii FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Hypolepis repens FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae
Habitat: Swamps, wet hammocks, solution holes
Native to Florida
Common Name: Spineless Bramble Fern, Soft Ground-fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Hypolepis tenuifolia FAMILY: Dennstaedtiaceae
Habitat: Moist disturbed areas
Non-native: tropical east Asia & South Pacific islands
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