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Lygodium palmatum

Botanic Family

Lygodiaceae

Author

(Bernhardi) Swartz

Common Names

• Hartford Fern
• Climbing Fern

Geographical Habitats

• Alabama
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Indiana
• Kentucky
• Massachusetts
• Maryland
• Missouri
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Virginia
• Vermont
• West Virginia

Natural Habitats

• Woodlands
• moist thickets
• coastal

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Deciduous climbing fern with twining petioles. Palmate fronds to 1.5m with 4-7 lobed leaflets, fertile leaflets forming terminal panicles, dark brown creeping rhizome to 1mm or less in diameter covered in brown hairs, fertile pinnae in upper portion of frond, solitary sporanges, sporangiophore to 7mm long

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• The Plant List 2
• USDA
• NAF
• FOSEUS