OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 3 taxa in the family Lygodiaceae, Climbing Fern family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: American Climbing Fern

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lygodium palmatum   FAMILY: Lygodiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lygodium palmatum   FAMILY: Lygodiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lygodium palmatum 008-01-001   FAMILY: Schizaeaceae

 

Habitat: Bogs, moist thickets, swamp forests, sandstone outcrops, roadside ditches and roadbanks, in strongly acid soils

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Japanese Climbing Fern

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lygodium japonicum   FAMILY: Lygodiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lygodium japonicum   FAMILY: Lygodiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lygodium japonicum 008-01-002   FAMILY: Schizaeaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Non-native: east Asia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Old World Climbing Fern, Small-leaf Climbing Fern

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lygodium microphyllum   FAMILY: Lygodiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lygodium microphyllum   FAMILY: Lygodiaceae

 

Habitat: Swamps, hammocks, disturbed areas

Non-native: southeast Asia

 


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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)