Landscape Uses:
	Water gardens and ponds.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Floating aquatic herbaceous fern.
Height:
	N/A; a floating aquatic.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Widespread in the United States south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland; West Indies, southern Mexico, Central America and South America.
Habitats:
	Freshwater ponds and swamps.
Soils:
	A floating aquatic in standing or flowing water.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Low; it grows in nutirent poor water; it can become aggressive in nutrient-rich water.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun to light shade or moderate shade.
Flower Color:
	N/A.
Flower Characteristics:
	There are no flowers; the plants reproduce by spores.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous spores.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
Comments:
	See a 2019 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog on the relationship between barnyard grass and Carolina mosquito fern.