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Your search found 11 taxa in the family Ophioglossaceae, Adder's-tongue family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Rattlesnake Fern, Sang-find
Look for it in a wide range of fairly dry, mesic, and wet forests, cove forests, especially in nutrient-rich, moist bottomlands and slopes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cutleaf Grapefern, Dissected Grapefern
Look for it in moist forests, clearings, old fields
Common (rare in Coastal Plain of NC, SC, GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Grapefern
Look for it in moist forests, clearings, old fields
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Winter Grapefern
Look for it in old fields, pastures, young forests, granitic flatrocks, juniper-oak-blue ash woodlands over limestone
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Daisyleaf Moonwort
Look for it in dry to moist forests (often successional), old fields, grassy balds, northern hardwood forests
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Least Moonwort
Look for it in disturbed gravelly areas in spruce-fir forests, northern hardwoods forests, grassy balds
Rare
Native to North Carolina
Look for it in moist ditch banks, grassy roadside flats, lawns, cemeteries
Rare (or overlooked) north of Georgia Coastal Plain, where it is uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Slender Adder's-tongue
Look for it in lawns and other moist, grassy areas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Longstem Adder's-tongue, Stalked Adder's-tongue Fern, Longstem Adder's-tongue
Look for it in maritime wet grasslands, moist ditch banks, and grassy roadside flats
Rare or overlooked north of Georgia
Non-native? Asia
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Common Name:
Southern Adder's-tongue
Look for it in bottomland forests, moist loamy soils of successional forests and old fields
Uncommon (or overlooked) in Mountains & Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Engelmann's Adder's-tongue, Limestone Adder's-tongue
Look for it in dry barrens and glades over calcareous rocks, very rarely on granite
Rare
Native to Georgia
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