NameThatPlant.net: Bommeria hispida

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bommeria hispida FAMILY Pteridaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more in Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas.

Read about the discovery of this fern in the Jocassee Gorges of South Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bommeria hispida FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

Bommeria hispida

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Bommeria hispida

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

Hemionitis hispida

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

Bommeria hispida

COMMON NAME:
Copper Fern, Hispid Bommer Fern, Hairy Bommer

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image of Bommeria hispida, Copper Fern, Hispid Bommer Fern, Hairy Bommer

Patrick D. McMillan pdmbommeria_hispida

December Pickens County SC

Jocassee Gorges

Leaf blades small, broadly 5-sided in outline (pentagonal), per The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014).

Patrick D. McMillan pdmbommeria_hispidab

December Pickens County SC

Jocassee Gorges

Pinnae with straight needle-like hairs on upper surface, per The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bommeria hispida FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bommeria hispida FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Bommeria hispida

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

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

4213

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Exposed rock, per Weakley's Flora

Native to southwestern US, with a disjunct population in w. SC

Rare

map
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Evergreen?
Blade pedately divided into 3 main segments, these deeply pinnate-pinnatifid

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes prostrate, long-creeping, often branched

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

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