Appendix (continued)
Ferns and Fern Allies
This list of park ferns is taken from Peter Mazzeo's
"Ferns and Fern Allies of Shenandoah National Park."
Habitat symbols: 1 oak, oak-hickory forest;
2 cove hardwoods; 3 hemlock, hemlock-white pine groves;
4 oak-pine forest; 5 birch-maple forest; 6 wooded
streams, stream margins, boggy places; 7 fields, road shoulders;
8 shrubby abandoned fields; 9 shrub swamp; 10 open
cliffs, rock outcrops; 11 shaded cliffs, rock outcrops
Occurrence symbols: C common; U
uncommon; R rare
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Common Name | Scientific Name |
Habitats | Occurrence |
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Common Horsetail | Equisetum arvense | 7 | U |
Mountain Club-moss | Lycopodium selago | 11 | R |
Fir Club-moss | L. selago var. patens | 11 | U |
Shining Club-moss | L. lucidulum | 2, 3 | U |
Common Club-moss | L. clavatum | 8 | R |
Round-branched Groundpine | L. obscurum var. dendroideum | 4 | U |
Running Pine | L. flabelliforme | 1, 3, 4, 5.8 | C |
Ground-cedar | L. tristachyum | 4, 8 | U |
Spikemoss | Selaginella rupestris | 10 | U |
Quillwort | Isoetes virginica | 9 | R |
Leathery Grape-fern | Botrychium multifidum | 8 | R |
Blunt-lobed Grape-fern | B. oneidense | 2, 5 | U |
Cutleaf Grape-fern | B. dissectum | 1, 8 | U |
Oblique Grape-fern | B. dissectum f. obliquum | 1, 8 | C |
Triangle Grape-fern | B. matricariaefolium | 2, 5 | U |
Daisy-leaf Grape-fern | B. lanceolatum var. angustisegmentum | 5 | R |
Rattlesnake-fern | B. virginianum | 2 | C |
Royal Fern | Osmunda regalis | 6, 9 | U |
Interrupted Fern | O. claytoniana | 1, 2, 5, 6 | C |
Cinnamon Fern | O. cinnamonea | 6, 9 | C |
Rusty Woodsia | Woodsia ilvensis | 10 | R |
Blunt-lobed Woodsia | W. obtusa | 8, 10, 11 | C |
Fragile Fern | Cystopteris fragilis | 11 | U |
Sensitive Fern | Onoclea sensibilis | 6, 9 | C |
Woodland Oak Fern | Thelypteris dryopteris | 5, 11 | U |
Marsh Fern | T. palustris | 6, 9 | U |
New York Fern | T. noveboracensis | 2, 3, 6 | C |
Broad Beech Fern | T. hexagonoptera | 2 | C |
Spinulose Wood-fern | Dryopteris spinulosa D. intermedia | 6 2, 3, 5, 11 | U C |
Marginal Shield-fern | D. marginalis | 1, 2, 3, 5, 11 | C |
Christmas Fern | Polystichum acrostichoides | 1, 2, 3, 11 | C |
Hay-scented Fern | Dennstaedtia punctilobula | 1, 5, 7, 8, 11 | C |
Silvery Spleenwort | Athyrium thelypterioides | 2 | U |
Lady Fern | A. filix-femina var. asplenioides (A. asplenioides A. Eaton) | 2, 6 | C |
Walking Fern | Camptosorus rhizophyllus | 11 | U |
Pinnatifid Spleenwort | Asplenium pinnatifidum | 11 | R |
Mountain Spleenwort | A. montanum | 11 | U |
Bradley's Spleenwort | A. bradleyi | 11 | R |
Blackstem Spleenwort | A. resiliens | 11 | R |
Maidenhair Spleenwort | A. trichomanes | 11 | U |
Ebony Spleenwort | A. platyneuron | 8, 10, 11 | C |
Hairy Lip-fern | Cheilanthes lanosa | 10 | U |
Maidenhair Fern | Adiantum pedatum | 2 | C |
Bracken Fern | Pteridium aquilinum | 4, 8 | C |
Common Polypody | Polypodium virginianum | 11 | C |
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