Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lorinseria areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Lorinseria from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lorinseria areolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Woodwardia areolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Woodwardia areolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-002:
Woodwardia areolata FAMILY Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Lorinseria areolata
COMMON NAME:
Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_loar7_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_woar_004_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm150412_242
April Pickens County SC
Laurel Fork Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm150412_245
April Pickens County SC
Laurel Fork Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200403_3511
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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Emily B. Sessa ebswareolata_4766
June
Pinnae tend to be acute or acuminate (vs. Onoclea's obtuse), per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
fronds of Netted Chain Fern and Sensitive Fern
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JK Marlow s030628_de
June Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
[Sterile frond on left, fertile on right.] Leaves strongly dimorphic, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm0007c_12
July Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_woodwardia_areolata_4
August
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JK Marlow s040815_a
August Greenville County SC
Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210907_3587
September Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm091006_010
October Greenville County SC
Prominent veins conspicuously netted, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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JK Marlow jkm091006_016
October Greenville County SC
Sori are large, elongate, and in two chains like links of sausage, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm101112_128
November Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Fertile leaves are much contracted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow s071123_a2
November Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
Pinnae of fertile leaves with 2 rows of linear sori; indusia firm & persistent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Sharleen Johnson shj_1199022284043657
December Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lorinseria areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lorinseria areolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Woodwardia areolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Woodwardia areolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-002:
Woodwardia areolata
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Lorinseria areolata
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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Habitat: Moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomlands, pocosins, wet hammocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in NC Mountains)
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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Pinnatifid
Leaves spaced along a long-creeping rhizome
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986) p112
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014) p119
- Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012) p207
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p125
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p204
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p457
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p236
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