Photo of a Japanese Climbing Fern

Japanese Climbing Fern

(Lygodium japonicum)

Japanese climbing fern is a perennial fern that is native to eastern Asia. Introduced to the US in the 1930s as an ornamental, it has now spread broadly throughout the southeastern US. It is deciduous in colder climates and evergreen in warmer climates. It often invades disturbed areas, forest edges, roadsides, etc.

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