“…An exhaustive bibliographic analysis about ferns species of the Argentina flora was carried out to establish the distribution, growth habits and environments of species that correspond to any of the aforementioned categories (i.e. Capurro 1968, de la Sota 1977, Moore 1983, Ponce 1994, de la Sota & Ponce 1998, de la Sota et al 2001, Ponce et al 2002, Pensiero et al 2005, Arana & Bianco 2009, Morero et al 2014, Ponce & Arana 2016. Additionally, surveys of weedy and ruderal species from worldwide (Randall 2017, Akomolafe & Rahmad 2018, southern South America (Gallo 1979), and Argentina (Burkart 1933, Marzocca, 1986, Fernández et al 2016), Brazil (Cardenas & Coulston 1967, Lorenzi 2008), Chile (Matthei et al 1995), Cuba (Caluff & Fiallo 2008, Caluff et al 2017, North America (Dickinson & Royer 2014), Oceania (Wilcox & Rogan 1999), Paraguay (De Egea et al 2016), Peru (Sagástegui & Leiva 1993, and Venezuela (Zambrano 1974), were examined with the aim of carrying out an exhaustive analysis of the ecological role that the studied species have in Argentina and in other areas of their distribution throughout the World.…”