Flora of the Southeastern United States

Claytosmunda claytoniana (Linnaeus) Metzgar & Rouhan. Common name: Interrupted Fern. Phenology: Mar-Jun. Habitat: Upland forests, woodlands, and balds, moist (or even wet) to rather dry. Distribution: NL (Newfoundland) west to MN, south to n. GA, n. AL, TN, and AR; disjunct in e. and sc. Asia (the Asian plants sometimes separated as a variety).

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: A fossil from the Triassic is seemingly indistinguishable from this species and suggests "that O. claytoniana has perhaps been in morphological stasis for at least 200 million years and also that the genus Osmunda is at least this old" (Metzgar et al. 2008).

Synonymy ⓘ: = Can, Bomfleur, Grimm, & McLoughlin (2015), Bomfleur, Grimm, & McLoughlin (2017), Metzgar et al (2008), PPG I (2016); = Osmunda claytoniana L. — Ar, FNA2, FoC, G, Il, Mo1, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, RAB, S13, Sf, Tat, Tn, W, WV; = Osmundastrum claytonianum (L.) Tagawa — K4; > Osmunda claytoniana L. var. claytoniana — C, F, NSProv, Va. Basionym: Osmunda claytoniana L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Osmunda claytoniana - FNA2

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Wetland Indicator Status:

• Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC (name change)
• Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC (name change)
• Great Plains: FAC (name change)
• Midwest: FAC (name change)
• Northcentral & Northeast: FAC (name change)

Heliophily ⓘ: 5