Golden Leather Fern

Acrostichum aureum

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 20 Florida counties.

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 85 animals.

Eastern Brown Pelican
Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Eurasian Wigeon
Anas penelope
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Fish Crow
Corvus ossifragus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Fulvous Whistling-duck
Dendrocygna bicolor
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Regulus satrapa
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Gray Kingbird
Tyrannus dominicensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Great Egret
Ardea alba
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Green Heron
Butorides virescens
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Indigo Bunting
Passerina cyanea
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Laughing Gull
Leucophaeus atricilla
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Bittern
Ixobrychus exilis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Flycatcher
Empidonax minimus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutilla
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Lesser Scaup
Aythya affinis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Limpkin
Aramus guarauna
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Little Blue Heron
Egretta caerulea
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Long-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus scolopaceus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Magnificent Frigatebird
Fregata magnificens
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Mangrove Cuckoo
Coccyzus minor
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Marsh Wren
Cistothorus palustris
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Merlin
Falco columbarius
Birds. 1 shared habitat