| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athyriaceae | Anisocampium |  (c) Danielson, Erik | |||
| Athyriaceae | Anisocampium niponicum | Japanese Painted Fern | Suburban woodlands, lawns; commonly planted as an ornamental, rarely naturalizing. This common suburban ornamental (forma picta) spreads locally from plantings; it seems only a matter of time before it naturalizes more widely. | Native of e. Asia. Reported as naturalizing sparingly in Arkansas (Peck 2011). Reported for Cleburne County, Alabama (Yawn et al. 2024). Reported for Piedmont of South Carolina (Samanatha Tessel, pers.comm., 2025). |  (c) Kalininsky, Timur - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Athyriaceae | Athyriaceae | Lady Fern Family |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Athyriaceae | Athyrium | Lady Fern |  (c) Bridges, Edwin | ||
| Athyriaceae | Athyrium angustum | Northern Lady Fern | Moist forests, rock outcrops on grassy balds at high elevations. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) and n. Québec west to Saskatchewan, south to n. Virginia, w. North Carolina, e. Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, and Arkansas (Peck 2011). |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Athyriaceae | Athyrium asplenioides | Southern Lady Fern | Moist forests, bottomlands, streambanks. | Massachusetts, West Virginia, Illinois, and Kansas south to n. Florida and e. Texas. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Athyriaceae | Deparia |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. | |||
| Athyriaceae | Deparia acrostichoides | Silvery Spleenwort | Moist forests, cove forests. | Nova Scotia west to Minnesota, south to North Carolina, South Carolina, n. Georgia, n. Alabama, and Arkansas. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Athyriaceae | Deparia petersenii | Japanese Lady Fern | Swamp forests, wet hammocks, moist banks, disturbed areas. | Introduced and naturalized in the Southeast, including in sw. North Carolina (K.A. Bradley, pers.comm., 2021), e. and w. South Carolina (K.A. Bradley, pers.comm., 2021), c. and s. Georgia, Alabama, s. Mississippi, e. Louisiana, and Florida, from a native distribution in e., se., and s. Asia. See Wyatt (2020) for discussion of naturalization in our region. | |
| Athyriaceae | Diplazium | Twin-sorus Fern | |||
| Athyriaceae | Diplazium esculentum | Vegetable Fern | Moist hammocks and disturbed areas. | Native of the Old World tropics (s. and se. Asia south to Indonesia). |  (c) Stekkelpak, Zoltán - CC0 |
| Athyriaceae | Diplazium lonchophyllum | Lanceleaf Twin-sorus Fern | Mesic ravines. | Known in the US only from s. Louisiana; Mexico and Central America. See discussion in Maxon (1944) about the apparently native occurrence of this species in s. Louisiana. |