Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)


Lygodium microphyllum


  [   PIER species information  ]   [  More images of this species  ]   [   PIER home  ]

Lygodium microphyllum

Old World climbing fern growing on cypress trees in southern Florida. The weed forms huge skirts that fires can climb to reach tree tops. Trees without the fern usually survive fire.

Peggy Greb, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org
(source URL: http://www.invasive.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=2308088)


Need more info? Have questions? Comments? Information to contribute? Contact PIER! (pier@hear.org)

  [   PIER species information  ]   [  More images of this species  ]   [   PIER home  ]

This page was created on 8/4/2009 and was last updated on 8/4/2009.