OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dryopteris goldieana   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dryopteris goldiana   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Dryopteris goldiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-04-008:

Dryopteris goldiana   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Dryopteris goldiana ssp. goldiana

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

Dryopteris goldiana

 

COMMON NAME:
Goldie's Woodfern


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image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_drgo_001_lvd

        

The epithet is correctly spelled "goldieana", following the ICNafp, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebsdgoldiana_3849

April        

Fiddlehead w glossy scales - note rich brown centers & pale to amber edges, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

JK Marlow    jkm150508_957

May    Union County    GA

Sosebee Cove

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

JK Marlow    jkm150508_957b

May    Union County    GA

Sosebee Cove

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

JK Marlow    jkm150508_959

May    Union County    GA

Sosebee Cove

Stipe long and scaly. Scales long, pointed, glossy and dark with pale edges, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebsdgoldiana_0467

June        

Its genome forms half of the genome of the tetraploid D. celsa, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebsdgoldiana_0470

June        

Pinnae alternate, oblong with pointed tips, deeply cut, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebsdgoldiana_0490

June        

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebsdgoldiana_1064

June        

One of the largest ferns we have in the woods around eastern North America, per No seeds, no fruits, no flowers: No problem. Adventures in Fern Biology (Sessa).

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

JK Marlow    jkm140607_648

June    Franklin County    NC

Highlands Biological Station

Blade mostly oval with parallel sides and abruptly pointed tip, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

JK Marlow    jkm140607_650

June    Franklin County    NC

Highlands Biological Station

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

JK Marlow    jkm140607_650b

June    Franklin County    NC

Highlands Biological Station

Sori round, in two rows close to midvein. Indusia peltate, kidney-shaped, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

JK Marlow    jkm140607_652

June    Franklin County    NC

Highlands Biological Station

Its genome forms one third of the genome of the hexaploid D. clintoniana, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

JK Marlow    jkm180728_3572

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Dryopteris goldieana, Goldie's Woodfern

JK Marlow    jkm170818_711

August    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dryopteris goldieana   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dryopteris goldiana   FAMILY Dryopteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Dryopteris goldiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 011-04-008:
Dryopteris goldiana   FAMILY Aspidiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Dryopteris goldiana ssp. goldiana

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

 

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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: boulderfield forests, rich cove forests, seepage swamps, especially over calcareous sedimentary or mafic metamorphic or igneous rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen/Deciduous
1-pinnate-pinnatifid
Leaves in a crown around a ring of buds

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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