OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Asplenium platyneuron   FAMILY Aspleniaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asplenium platyneuron   FAMILY Aspleniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Asplenium platyneuron

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)

Asplenium platyneuron

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Asplenium platyneuron var. bacculum-rubrum

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Asplenium platyneuron var. platyneuron

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2 (1993)

Asplenium platyneuron

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 013-01-003:

Asplenium platyneuron   FAMILY Aspleniaceae

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

Asplenium platyneuron

 

COMMON NAME:
Ebony Spleenwort


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image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_aspl_001_lvd

        

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

JK Marlow    jkm230328_2106

March    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_aplatyneuron_7982

April        

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_aplatyneuron_8842

April        

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_aplatyneuron_8844

April        

A row of sori on each side of pinna midvein, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

JK Marlow    jkm100427_027

April    Greenville County    SC

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_asplenium_platyneuron

April        

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

Gill Newberry    gn05_ebonyspleenwort_sori

May        

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

JK Marlow    jkm0505a_36

May    Greenville County    SC

Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve

Its rigid grace suggests a combination of delicacy and endurance, per How to Know the Ferns (Parsons, 1899).

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_platyneuron_3

May        

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_aplatyneuron_0261

June        

Pinnae alternate, with superior auricles; sessile, bases overlapping rachis, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_aplatyneuron_0266

June        

Indusia laterally attached, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

JK Marlow    jkm0506m_22

June    Union County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

JK Marlow    jkm130708_392

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Asplenium platyneuron, Ebony Spleenwort

JK Marlow    s071208_b

December    Greenville County    SC

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Asplenium platyneuron   FAMILY Aspleniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asplenium platyneuron   FAMILY Aspleniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Asplenium platyneuron

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Asplenium platyneuron

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Asplenium platyneuron var. bacculum-rubrum

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Asplenium platyneuron var. platyneuron

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Asplenium platyneuron

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 013-01-003:
Asplenium platyneuron   FAMILY Aspleniaceae

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

 

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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Moist to dry soils of forests, woodlands, old fields; also on outcrops, especially of calcareous rocks and in masonry crevices, at low to moderate elevations, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Sterile leaves evergreen/ fertile leaves deciduous
Pinnate
Leaves clustered on a short-creeping rhizome

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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