Anchistea virginica (Linnaeus) C. Presl. Virginia Chain Fern. Phen: Apr-Dec. Hab: Moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomlands, pocosins, sometimes in standing water, as in periodically flooded coastal plain depression ponds, wet hammocks. Dist: NS west to MI and IL, south to s. FL and e. TX (primarily Coastal Plain); Bermuda.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy: = K4, NY, S13, Sf, Tat, Cranfill & Kato (2003), Gasper et al (2016), Gasper et al (2017), Perrie et al (2014), PPG I (2016); = Woodwardia virginica (L.) Sm. – AqW, Ar, C, ETx1, F, Fl1, FNA2, G, Il, K1, K3, NE, Pa, RAB, SFla, Tn, Tx, TxFerns, Va, W, WH3

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Wetland Indicator Status:

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

Heliophily: 5