| Adiantum pedatum | ||||||||||||||
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 Northern Maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum) | ||||||||||||||
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| Adiantum pedatum L. |
Adiantum pedatum is a maidenhair fern that grows in North America. It is known as Northern Maidenhair or Five-fingered Fern.
A. pedatum is a distinctively American species, along with A. aleuticum, having a highly distinctive frond form and a bifurcating frond that radiates pinnae on one side only. It grows from subarctic North America into the deep south of the U.S.
A. aleuticum was formerly cosidered a subspecies of A. pedatum.
See also
- Adiantum aleuticum (Western Five-fingered Fern)
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