Native records: 24 botanical areas
Arizona, Bahamas, Bermuda, 21 more areas
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Nephrolepis exaltata
Boston fern
Distribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
Climatically similar areas are not areas where the plant can grow.
Distribution areas
Algeria
- AlgeriaIntroduced
Anguilla
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Antigua and Barbuda
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Australia
- QueenslandIntroduced
- Western AustraliaIntroduced
Bahamas
- BahamasNative
Bermuda
- BermudaNative
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- BoliviaNative
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Brazil
- Brazil NorthNative
- Brazil NortheastNative
- Brazil SouthNative
- Brazil SoutheastNative
Colombia
- ColombiaNative
Costa Rica
- Costa RicaNative
Cuba
- CubaNative
Ecuador
- EcuadorNative
French Polynesia
- Tubuai Is.Introduced
Guadeloupe
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Honduras
- HondurasNative
India
- IndiaIntroduced
Jamaica
- JamaicaNative
Kiribati
- Line Is.Introduced
Mexico
- Mexico GulfNative
Montserrat
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Morocco
- MoroccoIntroduced
New Zealand
- Kermadec Is.Introduced
Nicaragua
- NicaraguaNative
Panama
- PanamaNative
Portugal
- AzoresIntroduced
- PortugalIntroduced
Puerto Rico
- Puerto RicoNative
Saint Barthélemy
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- St.HelenaIntroduced
Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Saint Martin (French part)
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Spain
- Canary Is.Introduced
- MoroccoIntroduced
Tanzania, United Republic of
- TanzaniaIntroduced
Turks and Caicos Islands
- Turks-Caicos Is.Native
United States Minor Outlying Islands
- HawaiiNative
- Line Is.Introduced
United States of America
- ArizonaNative
- ArkansasIntroduced
- FloridaNative
- HawaiiNative
- LouisianaNative
- TexasNative
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Virgin Islands (British)
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- Leeward Is. AB AntNative
Other species in Nephrolepis
- Nephrolepis cordifoliaBoston fern
- Nephrolepis davalliae
- Nephrolepis davallioides
- Nephrolepis delicatula
- Nephrolepis dicksonioides
- Nephrolepis equilatera
- Nephrolepis falcataFishtail Swordfern
- Nephrolepis falciformis
- Nephrolepis flexuosathermal ladder fern
- Nephrolepis grayumiana
- Nephrolepis hirsutulaAsian sword fern
- Nephrolepis kuroiwae
NativeIntroducedUncertain