This large fern is found in brackish and freshwater marshes mostly near
the coast, throughout peninsular Florida ¹.  A concentrated tea made from this plant is used by Seminoles as a treatment for fever ².

1. Wunderlin, R. P. 1998.  Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida.  University        Press of Florida, Gainesville. p. 42.

2. Austin, D. 2004.  Florida Ethnobotany.  CRC Press, Boca Raton.  p. 64

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