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Dryopteridaceae
Dryopteris

not marked as a favorite taxon Dryopteris ludoviciana (Kunze) Small. Common name: Southern Woodfern. Phenology: Jun-Sep. Habitat: Blackwater swamp forests, hammocks, baygalls. Distribution: A Southeastern Coastal Plain species: e. NC south to s. FL, west to s. AL, s. MS (Sorrie & Leonard 1999), and e. LA; disjunct in the West Gulf Coastal Plain of LA and AR (Peck 2011), and possibly disjunct in sc. KY, the report old and somewhat uncertain.

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Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: This species is one of the diploid "parent species" of the e. North American reticulately-evolved Dryopteris complex. Its genome (symbolized LL) forms half of the genome of the tetraploids D. cristata and D. celsa, as well as contributing one third of the genome of D. clintoniana indirectly (via its daughter species D. cristata).

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, ETx1, Fl1, FNA2, K4, NS, POWO, RAB, Sf, TxFerns, WH3, Montgomery & Paulton (1981); Aspidium ludovicianum Kunze = n/a — C; ? Dryopteris floridana (Hook.) Kuntze — S13. Basionym: Aspidium ludovicianum Kunze 1848

Links to other floras: = Dryopteris ludoviciana - FNA2

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 3

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image #1 of Dryopteris ludoviciana© Alan Cressler: Dryopteris ludoviciana, Buggy Gut Creek Swamp, Burke County, Georgia 2 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Dryopteris ludoviciana© Alan Weakley source | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Dryopteris ludoviciana© Alan Weakley source | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Dryopteris ludoviciana© Alan Cressler: Dryopteris ludoviciana, Saddler Swamp, Calhoun County, South Carolina 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Dryopteris ludoviciana© Radford, Ahles and Bell | Original Image ⭷

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native range: southeastern United States



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