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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

Notholaena

Traits
Includes
2 native 7 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Star Cloak Fern present
  • California Cloak-fern native
  • Copeland's Cloak Fern native
  • Lemmon's Cloak Fern present
  • Gray's Cloak Fern
  • Scaled Cloak Fern
  • Notholaena candida
  • Notholaena trichomanoides
  • Gregg's Cloak Fern
  • Maxon's Cloak Fern
  • Notholaena schaffneri
  • Nealley's Cloak Fern
  • Mexican Cloak Fern

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.

  • California Cloak-fern Notholaena californica
  • Copeland's Cloak Fern Notholaena copelandii

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