OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 1 taxon in the family Vittariaceae, Shoestring Fern family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon Common Name: Appalachian Shoestring Fern, "Appalachian gametophyte"

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Vittaria appalachiana   FAMILY: Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Vittaria appalachiana   FAMILY: Vittariaceae

Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Vittaria - "a branching, ribbon-like gametophyte, with diffuse rhizoids and linear-shaped gemmae only one cell wide, of the genus Vittaria" 010?   FAMILY: ?

 

Habitat: Shaded grottoes, undersides of overhanging rock outcrops, especially in moist gorges or on spray cliffs in the vicinity of waterfalls, usually on felsic metamorphic rocks, such as mica schist, mica gneiss, granite gneiss, or metaquartzite, or on sandstone

Uncommon in Mountains, rare elsewhere

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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"Within the same group [of Oaks] ... leaves alone must not be used for final identification, as, even on the same tree, the leaves may vary more among themselves than between those of other species. This does not mean that there is no typical shape or shapes for any given species, but only that not every leaf will take a typical form." — George W.D. Symonds, The Tree Identification Book