Name that plant
Details:
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Date Photo Taken
06 / 21 / 2021
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Season Photo Was Taken
Summer
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Region Photo Was Taken
Southeast
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City
Atlanta
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State
Georgia
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Posted by
Scott K
Notes:
Resubmitting at request of Laura735 with closeup of (very small) sporangia, also a mostly-unfurled fiddlehead. For scale, entire pinna shown in sporangia pic is 3.5' wide. A patch of his lovely fern was found in the woods behind my house, but I can't identify it from the Native Ferns of Georgia book. It grows 3-4' tall & is lacy & delicate.
Comments
laura735 Master Identifier says:
You are welcome! Thank you for coming back and sharing the frond’s scent, also the wonderful time of ” I grew up playing in hay barns…: :)!
Laura
July 27th, 2021 at 12:37am
Scott K Apprentice says:
I believe you may be right, Laura735. I read that the hay scent comes from drying leaves, and I had a dried leaf on hand from the close-up photo I’d posted. Smells like hay to me.
July 12th, 2021 at 4:36pm
Scott K Apprentice says:
Thank you so much Laura 735. I haven’t noticed a scent but I’m heading out for a sniff! Appreciate the resources in case my nose doesn’t provide an answer. I grew up playing in hay barns…
July 12th, 2021 at 3:13pm
laura735 Master Identifier says:
Thank you for these follow up photos Scott K! With the green yellow, lacy triangular frond, its height & sori appear similar to the hayscented fern (Dennstaedtia punctilobula) (?) I could still be wrong since not having this fern in person. Perhaps these included links below can help you further. If this isn’t a match, I suggest you try the Connecticut Botanical Society for a confirm ID. Yearly membership is $15-20.00.
Copy & paste the link below for D. punctilobula. Best wishes Scott K!
Laura
https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/hay_fern.htm
July 1st, 2021 at 4:44am
laura735 Master Identifier says:
Link to Connecticutt Botanical Society.
https://www.ct-botanical-society.org/Plants/view/1524
July 1st, 2021 at 4:56am