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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Ferns
  5. Polypodiales
  6. Brake Family
  7. Vittarioideae
  8. Shoestring Fern

genus

Shoestring Fern

Vittaria

Traits
Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Shoestring Fern native
  • Appalachian Shoestring Fern native
  • Vittaria graminifolia native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Fern Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native shoestring fern All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Shoestring Fern Vittaria lineata
  • Appalachian Shoestring Fern Vittaria appalachiana
  • Vittaria graminifolia

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