Index / Search / Cheilanthes tomentosa
§1 Plant
Cheilanthes tomentosa Link
vernacular woolly lipfern — species · Pteridaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Fern
- Family
- Pteridaceae E.D.M. Kirchn.
- Genus
- Cheilanthes
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 177 counties across 14 states/territories§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 177 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Boone 05009
- Conway 05029
- Crawford 05033
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Izard 05065
- Logan 05083
- Marion 05089
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Perry 05105
- Pike 05109
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Scott 05127
- Searcy 05129
- Sebastian 05131
- Stone 05137
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
Georgia view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Atascosa 48013
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bexar 48029
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Comanche 48093
- Denton 48121
- Edwards 48137
- Falls 48145
- Gillespie 48171
- Grayson 48181
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Llano 48299
- Mason 48319
- McCulloch 48307
- Milam 48331
- Mitchell 48335
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Real 48385
- Robertson 48395
- San Saba 48411
- Tyler 48457
- Val Verde 48465
- Van Zandt 48467
- Walker 48471
- Young 48503
Virginia view state ↗ 18 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CHTO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7550965 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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