OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Anchistea virginica   FAMILY Blechnaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia virginica   FAMILY Blechnaceae

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

Anchistea virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Woodwardia virginica

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

Woodwardia virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-001:

Woodwardia virginica   FAMILY Blechnaceae

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

Anchistea virginica

 

COMMON NAME:
Virginia Chain-fern


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image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_anvi6_001_lvd

        

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_wovi_002_lvd

        

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

JK Marlow    jkm160416_220

April    Lowndes County    GA

Fronds upright, scattered along rhizomes and emerging individually, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

JK Marlow    jkm160416_222

April    Lowndes County    GA

Lacking the cinnamon tufts of tomentum present in pinnae axils of Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

JK Marlow    jkm160416_335

April    Lowndes County    GA

Blade leathery, glossy, with around 15 pairs of closely spaced pinnae, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

JK Marlow    jkm0505s_36

May    Williamsburg County    SC

Stipe is dark purple-brown, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

JK Marlow    jkm150529_104

May    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebswvirginica_1119

June        

Small veins form a row of areoles each side of midvein; all others are free, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebswvirginica_4188

July        

Sori chainlike, elongate, along midvein & at tip of pinnae lobes, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

Emily B. Sessa    ebswvirginica_4203

July        

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_w_virginica_virchain2

August        

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

JK Marlow    jkm081009_317

October    Bamberg County    SC

Lisa Matthews Memorial Bay

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

JK Marlow    s081009_b

October    Bamberg County    SC

Lisa Matthews Memorial Bay

Pinnae lanceolate. Lobes short, blunt, smooth-margined, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

JK Marlow    s081009_b2

October    Bamberg County    SC

Lisa Matthews Memorial Bay

image of Anchistea virginica, Virginia Chain-fern

JK Marlow    s081009_b3

October    Bamberg County    SC

Lisa Matthews Memorial Bay

Sori on each side of pinnae midrib, also paralleling pinnule midveins, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Anchistea virginica   FAMILY Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia virginica   FAMILY Blechnaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Woodwardia virginica

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-001:
Woodwardia virginica   FAMILY Blechnaceae

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

 

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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomlands, pocosins, sometimes in standing water, as in periodically flooded coastal plain depression ponds, wet hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
1-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves in rows, spaced along a long-creeping rhizome

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
A thick, horizontal, creeping rhizome

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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