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Habitat: Bogs, peatlands, pocosins, wet savannas, floodplains, blackwater stream swamps, marshes, and other wetlands, less typically in merely mesic or even dry-mesic forests, especially if seasonally sub-irrigated
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Only Cinnamon Fern has tan tufts of wool at pinnae bases ("hairy armpits"), per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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Tufts of white to light brown hairs at base of pinna, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
Habitat: Upland forests, woodlands, and balds, moist to rather dry
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Few or no hairs at base of pinna, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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The collar at the base of the pinna is not fuzzy like Cinnamon Fern's is, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).