Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Adiantum pedatum
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
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Learn more about Adiantum from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_037
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_adpe_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_adpe_009_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120403_445
April Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm160422_043
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm200422_4058
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm200422_4063
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm230531_3678
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210615_1384
June Oconee County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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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).
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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
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
2-pinnate, leaf dichotomously divided at the summit of the petiole, the two main branches pedately branched, fanlike
FRUIT:
Summer
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986) p050
- Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012) p155
- Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005) p47
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p121
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p194
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p140
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p151
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p056
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p327
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