Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
Ophioglossaceae | Ophioglossum crotalophoroides | Bulbous Adder’s-tongue | Moist ditch banks, grassy roadside flats, lawns, cemeteries, moist pine woodlands. | E. NC (Dare County) south to FL and west to c. TX; also in Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, and South America. |
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Ophioglossaceae | Ophioglossum engelmannii | Engelmann’s Adder’s-tongue, Limestone Adder’s-tongue | Dry barrens and glades over calcareous rocks, very rarely on granite. | W. VA, IN, IL, KS, and AZ south to Panhandle FL and TX; Mexico and Central America. |
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Ophioglossaceae | Ophioglossum nudicaule | Slender Adder’s-tongue | Pine flatwoods, lawns, and other moist, grassy areas. | E. NC south to s. FL, west to TX; West Indies; Mexico, Central, and South America; Asia; Africa. |
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Ophioglossaceae | Ophioglossum petiolatum | Long-stem Adder’s-tongue | Maritime wet grasslands, wet pine flatwoods, moist ditch banks, and grassy roadside flats. | Se. VA south to FL and west to TX and OK; West Indies; Central America to n. South America; Asia. |
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Ophioglossaceae | Ophioglossum pusillum | Northern Adder’s-tongue | Wet meadows, swamp edges. | NS west to ND and BC, south to w. VA, n. IN, n. IL, and w. NE, w. WY, w. MT, and CA. | |
Ophioglossaceae | Ophioglossum pycnostichum | Southern Adder’s-tongue | Bottomland forests, moist loamy soils of successional forests and old fields. | S. NJ, IN, IL, and s. MI south to GA, MS, and e. TX; s. Mexico. |
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