OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Athyrium angustum   FAMILY Athyriaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Athyrium filix-femina var. michauxii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Athyrium angustum

 

COMMON NAME:
Northern Lady Fern


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image of Athyrium angustum, Northern Lady Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_afilixfeminaang3840

April        

image of Athyrium angustum, Northern Lady Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_afilixfeminaang3845

April        

image of Athyrium angustum, Northern Lady Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_afilixfeminaang1566

July        

Indusia with hairs but not glands, edge attached to long sides of sori, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Athyrium angustum, Northern Lady Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_afilixfeminaang1601

July        

image of Athyrium angustum, Northern Lady Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_afilixfeminaang1720

July        

Pinnae sessile or with very short stalks, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Athyrium angustum, Northern Lady Fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_afilixfeminaang1720b

July        

image of Athyrium angustum, Northern Lady Fern

JK Marlow    jkm070703_058

July    Summers County    WV

Sandstone Visitors Center

Sori elongate. Spores yellowish to brownish, mature spores golden yellow, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Athyrium angustum, Northern Lady Fern

JK Marlow    jkm070703_061b

July    Summers County    WV

Sandstone Visitors Center

Blades broadly lanceolate w pointed tips, widest near or just below middle, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Athyrium angustum   FAMILY Athyriaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Athyrium filix-femina var. michauxii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Athyrium angustum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2454

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Moist forests, rock outcrops on grassy balds at high elevations, per Weakley's Flora

Native

Rare

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
2-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves clustered behind tip of short-creeping rhizome

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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