OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Adiantum pedatum   FAMILY Pteridaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Adiantum pedatum   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Adiantum pedatum

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Flora of North America

Adiantum aleuticum

INCLUDING Flora of North America

Adiantum pedatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-01-001:

Adiantum pedatum   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Adiantum pedatum

 

COMMON NAME:
Northern Maidenhair Fern


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image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_037

        

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_adpe_001_lvd

        

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_adpe_009_lvd

        

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm120403_445

April    Henderson County    NC

Holmes Educational Forest

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm150424_756

April    Blount County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Rachis divides into 2 branches to form a semicircular, fan-shaped blade, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm160422_043

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm160422_050

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Blades borne on slender erect branched stipes [here resembling small trees], per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm200422_4058

April    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm200422_4063

April    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm230531_3678

May    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm210615_1384

June    Oconee County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    s070927_g

September    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Pinnules entire on the lower margin, lobed on the upper, petiolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Adiantum pedatum, Northern Maidenhair Fern

JK Marlow    s070927_g2

September    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Sporangia are clustered under scalloped outer edges of many leaflets, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Adiantum pedatum   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Adiantum pedatum   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Adiantum pedatum

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Flora of North America
Adiantum aleuticum

INCLUDING Flora of North America
Adiantum pedatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-01-001:
Adiantum pedatum   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Adiantum pedatum

 

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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Moist forests and cliffs, especially over calcareous or mafic rocks, sometimes in seasonal seepage, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
2-pinnate, leaf dichotomously divided at the summit of the petiole, the two main branches pedately branched, fanlike

FRUIT:
Summer

 

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