Myriopteris alabamensis(Buckley) Grusz & Windham

Alabama lipfern

WFO wfo-0001337785 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Myriopteris alabamensis, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. a Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 196074849
Myriopteris alabamensis, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196243962
Myriopteris alabamensis, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. c Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196242867
Myriopteris alabamensis, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. d Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 190223478
Myriopteris alabamensis, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. e Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184289364
Myriopteris alabamensis, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. f Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182604915
Myriopteris alabamensis, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. g Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175111293
Myriopteris alabamensis, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. h Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173667716

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
3894261
Filed as
Myriopteris alabamensis (Buckley) Grusz & Windham
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
E. Palmer 1902-10-15
Origin
MX
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Myriopteris alabamensis is native: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Jamaica AlabamaArizonaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SouthwestMississippiMissouriNew MexicoNorth CarolinaOklahomaTennesseeTexasVirginiaJamaica
Native distribution of Myriopteris alabamensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arizona ARI
Arkansas ARK
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southwest MXS
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
New Mexico NWM
North Carolina NCA
Oklahoma OKL
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG
Jamaica JAM SOUTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,937 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -0.3 °C 6.0 °C 8.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 29.6 °C 34.2 °C 35.1 °C
Annual rainfall 642 mm 889 mm 1,388 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 72 mm 165 mm 282 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,937 research-grade observations of Myriopteris alabamensis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Allosorus alabamensis (Buckley) Kuntze
  • Allosorus alabamensis (Buckley) Farw.
  • Cheilanthes alabamensis (Buckley) Kunze
  • Cheilanthes microphylla var. alabamensis (Buckley) Davenp.
  • Hemionitis alabamensis (Buckley) Christenh.
  • Pellaea alabamensis (Buckley) Baker
  • Pteris alabamensis Buckley
  • Pteris buckleyi Riddell

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol CHAL5. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.