OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Phegopteris connectilis   FAMILY Thelypteridaceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_drph2_001_lvd

        

image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

Penny Longhurst    pen_20200724_104747

July    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

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).

image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

Penny Longhurst    pen_20200724_105037

July    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

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.

image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

Penny Longhurst    pen_20200724_105107

July    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

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).

image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

Penny Longhurst    pen_20200822_093423

August    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

Penny Longhurst    pen_20200910_114214

September    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Phegopteris connectilis, Northern Beech Fern

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

 

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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, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
2-pinnatifid
Leaves spaced along a creeping rhizome

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer

 

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