Kentucky Plant Atlas




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Blechnaceae [Polypodiaceae] Woodwardia <Anchistea> virginica
Woodwardia virginica (L.) Sm.
ALI: no HAB: 9, n/a, A, 4 ABU: g9, s2, -2
This occurs mostly in coastal regions from Mich. to Nova Scotia to Tex., and it is rare to absent in the midwest. It extends in the interior to the Cumberland Plateau of Tenn. (PL, Ch). The only record from Ky. is a coll. reported by R. Cranfill (pers. comm.) from a swamp southwest of Albany (CLIN), ca. 1996; the coll. may be in sotrage at KNK. The species may be overlooked when sterile because of similarity to Osmundastrum cinnamomeum.