Index / Search / Polystichum acrostichoides var. lonchitoides
§1 Plant
Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott var. lonchitoides Brooks
vernacular Christmas fern — variety · Dryopteridaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Fern
- Family
- Dryopteridaceae Herter
- Genus
- Polystichum
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 40 counties across 3 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 40 counties across 3 states/territories.
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 37 N ▾
- Barbour 54001
- Berkeley 54003
- Braxton 54007
- Cabell 54011
- Calhoun 54013
- Clay 54015
- Doddridge 54017
- Fayette 54019
- Gilmer 54021
- Grant 54023
- Greenbrier 54025
- Hampshire 54027
- Harrison 54033
- Kanawha 54039
- Lewis 54041
- Lincoln 54043
- Marshall 54051
- Mineral 54057
- Mingo 54059
- Monongalia 54061
- Nicholas 54067
- Ohio 54069
- Pendleton 54071
- Pleasants 54073
- Pocahontas 54075
- Preston 54077
- Putnam 54079
- Randolph 54083
- Ritchie 54085
- Summers 54089
- Taylor 54091
- Tyler 54095
- Upshur 54097
- Wayne 54099
- Wetzel 54103
- Wirt 54105
- Wood 54107
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/POACL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4041374 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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