Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Phegopteris connectilis
FAMILY
Thelypteridaceae
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Learn more about Northern Beech Fern from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phegopteris connectilis
FAMILY
Thelypteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Phegopteris connectilis
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Phegopteris connectilis
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Phegopteris connectilis
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-06-001:
Thelypteris phegopteris FAMILY Aspidiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Dryopteris phegopteris
INCLUDED WITHIN Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Phegopteris phegopteris
COMMON NAME:
Northern Beech Fern
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_drph2_001_lvd
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Penny Longhurst pen_20200724_104747
July Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Penny Longhurst pen_20200724_104753
July Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Rachis wings absent between the two basal pinna pairs; frond blade longer than wide, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Penny Longhurst pen_20200724_105037
July Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Penny Longhurst pen_20200724_105050
July Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Indument abaxially of moderately to densely set hairs along costae, veins, and blade tissue, per Flora of North America.
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Penny Longhurst pen_20200724_105107
July Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Penny Longhurst pen_20200808_105615
August Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
The blade is more conspicuously hairy on the leaf tissue than that of broad beech fern, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
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Penny Longhurst pen_20200822_093423
August Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Penny Longhurst pen_20200910_114214
September Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Penny Longhurst pen_20211014_104200
October Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaves turn reddish or pale yellow before they wither in the fall, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Phegopteris connectilis
FAMILY
Thelypteridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phegopteris connectilis
FAMILY
Thelypteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Phegopteris connectilis
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Phegopteris connectilis
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Phegopteris connectilis
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-06-001:
Thelypteris phegopteris
FAMILY
Aspidiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Dryopteris phegopteris
INCLUDED WITHIN
Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Phegopteris phegopteris
4665
Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Habitat: Moist cliffs where wet by spray from waterfalls (at medium elevations), also on high elevation cliffs wet by seepage and in spruce-fir forests, northward in cool ravines and on swamp borders. Most of the occurrences in NC are at waterfalls in the escarpment gorges of Transylvania, Macon, and Jackson counties, near Highlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
2-pinnatifid
Leaves spaced along a creeping rhizome
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
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