OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Dryopteris australis   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dryopteris ×australis [celsa × ludoviciana]   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Dryopteris ×australis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Dryopteris australis

SYNONYMOUS WITH -

Dryopteris clintoniana var. australis

 

COMMON NAME:
Southern Woodfern, Southern Shield-fern, Dixie Woodfern


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image of Dryopteris australis, Southern Woodfern, Southern Shield-fern, Dixie Woodfern

Alan S. Weakley    asw_977787853333764

April    Orange County    NC

North Carolina Botanical Garden

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Dryopteris australis   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dryopteris ×australis [celsa × ludoviciana]   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Dryopteris ×australis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Dryopteris australis

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Dryopteris clintoniana var. australis

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4793

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: swamps, bottomlands, mesic forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
1-pinnate-pinnatifid to 2-pinnate (or to 2-pinnate-pinnatifid in lower pinnae)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?

 

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