OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Myriopteris tomentosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cheilanthes tomentosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

Myriopteris tomentosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH The global flora: a practical guide to vascular plant species of the world (Christenhusz, Fay, & Byng, 2018)

Hemionitis bradburii

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

Cheilanthes tomentosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Cheilanthes tomentosa

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

Cheilanthes tomentosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-03-003:

Cheilanthes tomentosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Cheilanthes lanosa

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

Cheilanthes tomentosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Woolly Lipfern


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image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_chto2_001_lvd

        

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm230228_1361

February    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Pinnule margins are strongly rolled-under, such that the sori are usually hidden from view, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm090425_116

April    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

Fronds curl up when dry but become fresh & green again with rain, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm090425_119

April        

Nine Times Preserve

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm200425_4308

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm200425_4311

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm200425_4311b

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

The blade's ultimate segments pinched at the base so as to appear beadlike, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm200425_4315

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm220409_6620

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm220409_6621

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm220409_6625

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm220409_6628

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm110513_507

May    Greenville County    SC

Camp Old Indian

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm200508_4774

May    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

The stipes are very hairy and scaly, about 3-4" long, shorter than blades, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_ctomentosa0062

June        

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_ctomentosa0062b

June        

A woolly-looking species, with a glaucous, pale whitish-gray-green blade, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_ctomentosa0067

June        

Pinnules deeply cut into oblong lobes, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_ctomentosa0072

June        

Rachis brown, densely hairy and scaly, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_ctomentosa0078

June        

image of Myriopteris tomentosa, Woolly Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_ctomentosa0113

June        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Myriopteris tomentosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cheilanthes tomentosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH The global flora: a practical guide to vascular plant species of the world (Christenhusz, Fay, & Byng, 2018)
Hemionitis bradburii

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cheilanthes tomentosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Cheilanthes tomentosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-03-003:
Cheilanthes tomentosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cheilanthes lanosa

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

 

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310

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Dry outcrops of intermediate or calcareous metamorphic, igneous, or sedimentary rocks (including sandstone outcrops in the Coastal Plain of GA and SC), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
3-pinnate

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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