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§1 Plant
Pteris vittata L.
vernacular ladder brake — species · Pteridaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Fern
- Family
- Pteridaceae E.D.M. Kirchn.
- Genus
- Pteris
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 43 counties across 6 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 43 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Escambia 12033
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Hernando 12053
- Jefferson 12065
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 11 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PTVI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5275398 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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