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Your search found 5 taxa in the family Athyriaceae, Lady Fern family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Southern Lady Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Athyrium asplenioides FAMILY: Athyriaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Athyrium filix-femina ssp. asplenioides FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Athyrium asplenioides 011-01-001 FAMILY: Aspidiaceae
Habitat: Moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Lady Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Athyrium angustum FAMILY: Athyriaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
Habitat: Moist forests, rock outcrops on grassy balds at high elevations
Rare
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Common Name:
Silvery Glade Fern, Silvery Spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Deparia acrostichoides FAMILY: Athyriaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Deparia acrostichoides FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Athyrium thelypterioides 011-01-002 FAMILY: Aspidiaceae
Habitat: Moist forests, cove forests
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Japanese Painted Fern
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Anisocampium niponicum FAMILY: Athyriaceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands, lawns; commonly planted as an ornamental, rarely naturalizing. This common suburban ornamental (forma picta) spreads locally from plantings; it seems only a matter of time before it begins to naturalize more widely
Rare
Non-native: Japan
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Common Name:
Japanese Lady Fern, Japanese false spleenwort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Deparia petersenii FAMILY: Athyriaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS National Database: Deparia petersonii FAMILY: Dryopteridaceae
Habitat: Swamp forests, wet hammocks, moist banks, disturbed areas
Uncommon in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Non-native: southeast Asia
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