Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Adiantum pedatum
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Adiantum from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Adiantum pedatum
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-01-001:
Adiantum pedatum
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
COMMON NAME:
Northern Maidenhair Fern
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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
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JK Marlow jkm200422_4063
April Greenville County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_adiantum_pedatum_2
May
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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.
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm0411g_23
November Oconee County SC
Roadside
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Adiantum pedatum
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Adiantum pedatum
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-01-001:
Adiantum pedatum
FAMILY
Pteridaceae
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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Look for it in moist forests & cliffs, esp over calcareous or mafic rocks, sometimes in seasonal seepage, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
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 p050
- Ferns of the Smokies p47
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p121
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p194
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p140
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p056
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p327