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Your search found 11 taxa in the family Ophioglossaceae, Adder's-tongue family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Rattlesnake Fern, Sang-find
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Botrypus virginianus FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium virginianum FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Botrychium virginianum 006-01-001 FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: In a wide range of fairly dry, mesic, and wet forests, cove forests, especially in nutrient-rich, moist bottomlands and slopes
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cutleaf Grapefern, Dissected Grapefern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sceptridium dissectum FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium dissectum FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Botrychium dissectum 006-01-003 FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Moist forests, clearings, old fields
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC) (rare in NC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Grapefern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sceptridium biternatum FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium biternatum FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Botrychium biternatum 006-01-004 FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Moist forests, clearings, old fields
Common (rare in NC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Winter Grapefern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sceptridium lunarioides FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium lunarioides FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Botrychium lunarioides 006-01-006 FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Old fields, pastures, young forests, granitic flatrocks, juniper-oak-blue ash woodlands over limestone, cemeteries
Rare (historically in NC Piedmont, but not recently seen)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Daisyleaf Moonwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Botrychium matricariifolium FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Botrychium matricariifolium FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Dry to moist forests (often successional), old fields, grassy balds, northern hardwood forests
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Least Moonwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Botrychium simplex var. simplex FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Botrychium simplex FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Disturbed gravelly areas in spruce-fir forests, northern hardwoods forests, grassy balds
Rare
Native to North Carolina
Common Name: Bulbous Adder's-tongue, Dwarf Adder's Tongue
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum crotalophoroides FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum crotalophoroides FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ophioglossum crotalophoroides 006-02-001 FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Moist ditch banks, grassy roadside flats, lawns, cemeteries, moist pine woodlands
Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Slender Adder's-tongue
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum nudicaule FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum nudicaule FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ophioglossum nudicaule 006-02-002 FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Pine flatwoods, lawns, and other moist, grassy areas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Longstem Adder's-tongue, Stalked Adder's-tongue Fern, Longstem Adder's-tongue
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum petiolatum FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum petiolatum FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ophioglossum petiolatum 006-02-003 FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Maritime wet grasslands, wet pine flatwoods, moist ditch banks, and grassy roadside flats
Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas
Non-native? Asia
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Common Name:
Southern Adder's-tongue
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum pycnostichum FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum vulgatum FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ophioglossum vulgatum var. pycnostichum 006-02-004 FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Bottomland forests, moist loamy soils of successional forests and old fields
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Engelmann's Adder's-tongue, Limestone Adder's-tongue
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ophioglossum engelmannii FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ophioglossum engelmannii FAMILY: Ophioglossaceae
Habitat: Dry barrens and glades over calcareous rocks, very rarely on granite
Rare
Native to Georgia
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