Giant Leather Fern
Acrostichum danaeifolium
Found in freshwater and brackish swamps and marshes. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you
Native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?
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At a glance
Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves
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Recorded in 35 Florida counties.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


Also found with this plant
Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 148 animals.
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- King RailRallus elegans
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus nelsoni
Who uses this plant?
2CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL
Genus host records with ranges including FL · Acrostichum
- Fagitana litteraMarsh Fern Moth
- Stathmopoda elyellaGolden Stathmopoda
No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Plant details
- Family
- Pteridaceae
Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.
Conservation status
| Florida rank | S4 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| FL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
Will it fit your yard?
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Sources
- Atlas of Florida Plants
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition
- NatureServe Explorer
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications

























