NameThatPlant.net: Sceptridium lunarioides

Monilophytes (ferns): Ophioglossoid Ferns (eusporangiate ferns): Ophioglossales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Sceptridium lunarioides FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Sceptridium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Botrychium lunarioides FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 006-01-006:
Botrychium lunarioides FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux
Botrypus lunarioides

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Holubiella lunarioides

COMMON NAME:
Winter Grapefern

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image of Sceptridium lunarioides, Winter Grapefern

Keith Bradley kab_sceptlunarioides_k

March Laurens County SC

Blade prostrate; broadly triangular; segments small, roundish or fan-shaped, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Sceptridium lunarioides FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Botrychium lunarioides FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 006-01-006:
Botrychium lunarioides FAMILY Ophioglossaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux
Botrypus lunarioides

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Holubiella lunarioides

4002

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it in old fields, pastures, young forests, granitic flatrocks, juniper-oak-blue ash woodlands over limestone, per Weakley's Flora

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

LEAVES:
Sub-evergreen
Leaf consists of a 2-pinnate to 3-pinnate sterile blade & a fertile panicle

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring

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