OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cheilanthes lanosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

Myriopteris lanosa

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

Hemionitis lanosa

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

Cheilanthes lanosa

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

Cheilanthes lanosa

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

Cheilanthes lanosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-03-002:

Cheilanthes lanosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

Cheilanthes vestita

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

Cheilanthes lanosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Hairy Lipfern


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image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_chla2_001_lvd

        

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm230228_1359

February    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_clanosa8958

April        

Curls up when dry but revives with rain, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_clanosa8964b

April        

Pinnule lobes have sparse hairs on both sides, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm170408_534

April    Newberry County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District

Pinnules lobed to deeply lobed but rarely cut to midrib, sparsely hairy, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm170408_536

April    Newberry County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm170408_543

April    Newberry County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm200425_4323

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

The most common and most widespread lipfern in our area, and ...

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm200425_4324

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

...the most eastern of a predominantly "southwestern" genus, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm200425_4325

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm220409_6619

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm220421_7119

April    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

JK Marlow    jkm220421_7120

April    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

Petiole & rachis with hairs only (vs. M. tomentosa with a mixture of flattened scales and hairs), per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_clanosa0087

June        

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebs_clanosa0105b

June        

Sori crowded to form continuous line around, & partially covered by, margin, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Myriopteris lanosa, Hairy Lipfern

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_cheilanthes_lanosa_5

October        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cheilanthes lanosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

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

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

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-03-002:
Cheilanthes lanosa   FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

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

 

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309

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Dry outcrops of felsic or intermediate-composition metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common to uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
2-pinnate-pinnatifid

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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