ASPLENIACEAE - - Spleenwort Family

Asplenium platyneuron (Linnaeus) Britton, Sterns, & Poggenburg — Ebony Spleenwort

Habitat:

Moist to dry soils of forests, woodlands, old fields; also on outcrops, especially of calcareous rocks and in masonry crevices, at low to moderate elevations. A. platyneuron in general, and var. platyneuron specifically, is by far the most common of our Asplenium species, and the only one found characteristically away from rock.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.

Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].

USDA, NRCS. 2018. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, Various Dates). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA.