Star-scale Polypody

Pleopeltis astrolepis

Found in sloughs, epiphytic on Pond Apple ( Annona glabra ). FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

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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 1 Florida county.

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

Ecological relationships

2CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Polypodium

0BeesSoutheastern regional records

0Specialist beesPollen specialists

—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

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