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MatBio: FERNS & MOSSES - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Bicolored Spleenwort 1
Asplenium heterochroum
Carolina Mosquito Fern 2
Azolla caroliniana
Toothed Midsorus Fern 3
Blechnum serrulatum
Netted Chain Fern 4
Woodwardia areolata
Virginia Chain Fern 5
Woodwardia virginica
Tailed Bracken 6
Pteridium aquilinum pseudocaudatum
Japanese Netvein Holly Fern 7
Cyrtomium falcatum
Scouring Rush 8
Equisetum hyemale affine
Stalked Adder's-Tongue 9
Ophioglossum petiolatum
Cinnamon Fern 10
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
Royal Fern
Osmunda regalis spectabilis
Plume Polypody 9
Pecluma plumula
Golden Polypody 3
Phlebodium aureum
Resurrection Fern 9
Pleopeltis polypodioides michauxiana
Whisk-Fern 9
Psilotum nudum
Giant Leather Fern 3
Acrostichum danaeifolium
Venus'-Hair Fern 11
Adiantum capillus-veneris
Brittle Maidenhair 12
Adiantum tenerum
Chinese Ladder Brake 13
Pteris vittata
Water Spangles 14
Salvinia minima
Japanese Climbing Fern 15
Lygodium japonicum
Mariana Maiden Fern 16
Macrothelypteris torresiana
Downy Maiden Fern 17
Thelypteris dentata
Hairy Maiden Fern
Thelypteris hispidula versicolor
Widespread Maiden Fern 18
Thelypteris kunthii
Shoestring Fern 9
Vittaria lineata
southern wood fern 19
Dryopteris ludoviciana
Pteridium caudatum 3

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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