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§1 Plant

Argyrochosma dealbata (Pursh) Windham

vernacular powdery false cloak fern — species · Pteridaceae


USDA
ARDE5
GBIF
2651656
Rank
species
powdery false cloak fern (Argyrochosma dealbata)
Platephotograph · Sam KieschnickCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Fern
Family
Pteridaceae E.D.M. Kirchn.
Genus
Argyrochosma
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 95 counties across 7 states/territories
Legend Native · 95 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 95 counties across 7 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 6 N
Kansas view state ↗ 34 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 21 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 10 N
Texas view state ↗ 22 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ARDE5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2651656 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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