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Your search found 5 taxa in the family Dennstaedtiaceae, Bracken Fern family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Hay-scented Fern, Pasture Fern, Boulder Fern
Look for it in rocky or dry woodlands and forests, rock outcrops, pastures, clearings, roadbanks
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Bracken, Brake
Look for it mainly in dry woodlands, and (depending on subspecies) heath balds or sandhills and flatwoods
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Southern Bracken
Look for it mainly in dry sandy or rocky woodlands, often locally abundant in longleaf pine sandhills and pine flatwoods
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in swamps, wet hammocks, solution holes
Native to Florida
Look for it in moist disturbed areas. It is rather commonly cultivated, and escaping and establishing vegetatively by rhizome
Non-native: tropical east Asia & South Pacific islands
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