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Vittaria lineata (L.) Sm.
Shoestring fern

Copyright by: George D. Gann, 2012
In habitat, Palm Beach County, Florida

Family: Pteridaceae

Group: Pteridophyte

Substrate: Epiphyte

Habit: Herb

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Southeastern United States (Florida, Georgia), the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Secure

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: Visit our Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images. Reported by John Kunkel Small in 1918 for Royal Palm Hammock. See a 2018 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog on Shoestring fern's relationship with the moss Octoblepharum albidum.

Other data on Vittaria lineata available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Vittaria lineata has been found in the following 107 conservation areas :
A.D. Doug Barnes Park	Present	Native
Alice C. Wainwright Park	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Arch Creek Park	Present	Native
Babcock Ranch Preserve	Present	Native
Barefoot Beach Preserve	Present	Native
Big Cypress National Preserve	Present	Native
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park	Presumed Extirpated	Native, Cultivated Only
Bill Sadowski Park	Present	Native
Black Creek Forest	Present	Native
Blowing Rocks Preserve	Present	Native
Bocilla Preserve	Present	Native
Bonair Beach Parcel, Martin County	Present	Native
Boystown Pineland	Present	Native
Caloosahatchee Creeks Preserve	Present	Native
Caloosahatchee Regional Park	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 28	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 33	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock Park	Present	Native
Cayo Costa State Park	Present	Native
Cedar Point Environmental Park	Present	Native
Collier-Seminole State Park	Present	Native
Coral Reef Park	Present	Native
Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW)	Present	Native
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary	Present	Native
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park	Present	Native
Danforth Park	Recorded as Present in Error
Deering Estate at Cutler	Present	Native
Delray Oaks Natural Area	Present	Native
Doris Davis Forman Wilderness Preserve Natural Area	Present	Native
Dupuis Reserve	Present	Native
Estero Bay Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Everglades National Park	Present	Native
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Fern Forest Nature Center	Present	Native
Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Fred C. Babcock-Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Frenchman's Forest Natural Area	Present	Native
Fuchs Hammock Preserve	Present	Native
Girl Scouts South Miami Little House	Present	Native
Gomez	Present	Native
Grassy Waters Preserve	Present	Native
Halpatiokee Regional Park	Present	Native
Harden Hammock	Present	Native
Hattie Bauer Hammock	Present	Native
Hawk's Hammock Park	Present	Native
Hickey Creek Mitigation Park Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Hillsboro Pineland Natural Area	Present	Native
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Present	Native
J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
John D. MacArthur Beach State Park	Present	Native
Jonathan Dickinson State Park	Present	Native
Juno Dunes Natural Area	Present	Native
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area	Present	Native
Kendall Indian Hammocks Park	Present	Native
Kiplinger	Present	Native
Koreshan State Historic Site	Present	Native
LaBelle Nature Park	Present	Native
Larry and Penny Thompson Park	Present	Native
Loxahatchee River Natural Area	Present	Native
Loxahatchee River-Lake Worth Creek Aquatic Preserve	Present	Native
Loxahatchee Slough Natural Area	Present	Native
Luis Martinez United States Army Reserve Station, Richmond Pine Rocklands	Present	Native
Matanzas Pass Preserve	Present	Native
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Native
Medlock Pineland	Present	Native
Muscara	Present	Native
National Key Deer Refuge	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Navy Wells Pineland 23	Present	Native
Navy Wells Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Ned Glenn Nature Preserve	Present	Native
Nicodemus Slough	Present	Native
Nixon Smiley Pineland Addition	Present	Native
Nixon Smiley Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest, Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area - FWC, Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Pal-Mar	Present	Native
Pal-Mar Natural Area	Present	Native
Peck Lake Park	Present	Native
Picayune Strand State Forest	Present	Native
Pine Jog Environmental Sciences Center	Present	Native
Pond Apple Slough Natural Area	Present	Native
Prairie Pines Preserve	Present	Native
Quail Roost Pineland	Present	Native
R. Hardy Matheson Preserve	Present	Native
Riverbend Park	Present	Native
Rockdale Pineland	Present	Native
Rocky Point Hammock	Present	Native
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	Present	Native
Royal Palm Beach Pines Natural Area	Present	Native
Savannas Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Seabranch Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Silver Palm Groves	Present	Native
Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve	Present	Native
South Dade Wetlands	Present	Native
St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Stuart Beach Park	Present	Native
Stump Pass Beach State Park	Present	Native
Tall Cypress Natural Area	Present	Native
Tradewinds Park & Stables	Present	Native
Twin Rivers	Present	Native
Wild Turkey Strand Preserve	Present	Native
Woodmont Natural Area	Present	Native
Yamato Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Yellow Fever Creek Preserve	Present	Native

	Occurrence	Native Status
Vittaria lineata has been found in the following 10 counties :
Broward County		Native
Charlotte County		Native
Collier County		Native
Hendry County
Lee County		Native
Martin County		Native
Miami-Dade County		Native
Monroe County (Keys)		Native
Monroe County (Mainland)		Native
Palm Beach County		Native