fern growing in sand at the Rome Sand Plains Unique Area. the soil was so sandy, i feel comfortable just calling it sand.
Blades bipinnate-pinnatifid; vascular bundles 3-5 (photo 4); leaves evergreen (some just emerging, most plants with fresh foliage in mid-November); plants with glandular hairs on the rachis, pinnae and indusia (photos 6, 7 and 8); first basal-pointed pinnule of basal pinnae <2x as long as the first tip-pointed pinnule of basal pinnae (photo 5); first basal-pointed pinnule of basal pinnae equal in length to next outermost basal-pointed pinnule (photo 5)
Leptogramma burksiorum seen growing in sandstone “rock houses” along the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River. Sori lacking indusia. Growing with bryophytes and liverworts, Vittaria appalachiana, Didymoglossum petersii, and occasionally with Vandenboschia boschiana. Locality obscured.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Chestnut Top Trail