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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Ferns
  5. Polypodiales
  6. Brake Family
  7. Lip Fern Subfamily
  8. Cloak Fern

genus

Cloak Fern

Astrolepis

Traits
Includes
3 native 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Wavy Scale Cloakfern present
  • Scaly Cloak-fern native
  • Hybrid Cloakfern native
  • Windham's Scaly Cloakfern native
  • Astrolepis crassifolia present
  • Astrolepis laevis

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 cloak fern All

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

  • Scaly Cloak-fern Astrolepis cochisensis
  • Hybrid Cloakfern Astrolepis integerrima
  • Windham's Scaly Cloakfern Astrolepis windhamii

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