THELYPTERIDACEAE

Phegopteris connectilis (Michaux) Watt. Northern Beech Fern. Phen: Apr-Aug. Hab: Moist cliffs where wet by spray from waterfalls (at medium elevations), also on high elevation cliffs wet by seepage and in spruce-fir forests, northward in cool ravines and on swamp borders. Dist: A circumboreal species, at its southern limit in North America in MD, WV, OH, IL, IA, MT, and OR; disjunct southward in w. NC and e. TN, and in CO

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Syn: = K4, Gilman (2020), Patel, Fawcett, & Gilman (2019); < Dryopteris phegopteris – F; < Phegopteris connectilis – FNA2, FoC, Il, K1, K3, NE, NY, Pa, Tn, WV, Fawcett & Smith (2021); < Phegopteris phegopteris – Sf; < Thelypteris phegopteris – C, G, RAB, W

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