OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa   FAMILY Woodsiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

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

Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa

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

Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-02-003:

Woodsia obtusa   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Woodsia obtusa

 

COMMON NAME:
Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia


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image of Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa, Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia

JK Marlow    jkm230328_2119

March    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa, Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia

JK Marlow    jkm230328_2121

March    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Leaves 1-pinnate with deeply lobed leaflets, may be 2-pinnate at base, per Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012).

image of Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa, Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia

JK Marlow    jkm230328_2180

March    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Stipe with conspicuous light brown scales. Rachis slightly scaly, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa, Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia

JK Marlow    jkm230328_2182

March    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Resembles some Cystopteris but has numerous scales on the leaf stalk and star-shaped indusia, per Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012).

image of Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa, Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia

JK Marlow    jkm230418_2622

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa, Blunt-lobed Cliff Fern, Common Woodsia

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmwobtusa_home1

April    Anderson County    SC

Blade lanceolate, cut into widely spaced pinnae at right angles to rachis, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa   FAMILY Woodsiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Woodsia obtusa ssp. obtusa

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-02-003:
Woodsia obtusa   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Woodsia obtusa

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1676

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: rock outcrops of various sorts, moist talus, terrestrial near rock outcrops, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen
1-pinnate-pinnatifid to 2-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves clustered from a rhizome with a few old petiole bases of various lengths

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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