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
Toothed Midsorus Fern 2
Blechnum serrulatum
Netted Chain Fern 3
Woodwardia areolata
Virginia Chain Fern 4
Woodwardia virginica
Tailed Bracken 5
Pteridium aquilinum pseudocaudatum
Japanese Netvein Holly Fern 6
Cyrtomium falcatum
Plume Polypody 7
Pecluma plumula
Golden Polypody 2
Phlebodium aureum
Resurrection Fern 7
Pleopeltis polypodioides michauxiana
Giant Leather Fern 2
Acrostichum danaeifolium
Venus'-Hair Fern 8
Adiantum capillus-veneris
Brittle Maidenhair 9
Adiantum tenerum
Chinese Ladder Brake 10
Pteris vittata
Mariana Maiden Fern 11
Macrothelypteris torresiana
Downy Maiden Fern 12
Thelypteris dentata
Hairy Maiden Fern
Thelypteris hispidula versicolor
Widespread Maiden Fern 13
Thelypteris kunthii
Shoestring Fern 7
Vittaria lineata
southern wood fern 14
Dryopteris ludoviciana

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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