OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 2 taxa in the family Blechnaceae, Deer Fern family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Virginia Chain-fern

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Anchistea virginica   FAMILY: Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Woodwardia virginica   FAMILY: Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Woodwardia virginica 012-01-001   FAMILY: Blechnaceae

 

Habitat: Moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomlands, pocosins, and bayhead margins, sometimes in standing water, as in periodically flooded coastal plain depression ponds, wet hammocks

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lorinseria areolata   FAMILY: Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Woodwardia areolata   FAMILY: Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Woodwardia areolata 012-01-002   FAMILY: Blechnaceae

 

Habitat: Moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomlands, pocosins, wet hammocks

Common (uncommon in NC Mountains)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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"The following chronological synopsis of flora accounts of Microstegium is instructive: not treated by Small (1933), 'local' (Fernald 1950), 'rarely introduced and possibly not established' (Gleason & Cronquist 1952), 'sporadically naturalized' (Godfrey & Wooten 1979), 'a rapidly spreading pernicious invader on moist ground, too common' (Wofford 1989)... This species has become a very serious pest, now ranking as one of the most destructive introduced plants in our area, forming extensive and dense patches, sprawling over and eliminating nearly all other herbaceous plants. Eradication is very difficult, and considering its obvious colonizing abilities, only temporary." — Alan S. Weakley in Flora of the Southeastern US (2023)