OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Adiantum capillus-veneris   FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

Adiantum capillus-veneris

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Adiantum capillus-veneris

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)

Adiantum capillus-veneris

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-01-002:

Adiantum capillus-veneris   FAMILY Pteridaceae

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

Adiantum capillus-veneris

 

COMMON NAME:
Southern Maidenhair Fern, Venus-hair Fern


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image of Adiantum capillus-veneris, Southern Maidenhair Fern, Venus-hair Fern

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_035

        

image of Adiantum capillus-veneris, Southern Maidenhair Fern, Venus-hair Fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_adca_001_lvd

        

image of Adiantum capillus-veneris, Southern Maidenhair Fern, Venus-hair Fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_adca_005_lvd

        

image of Adiantum capillus-veneris, Southern Maidenhair Fern, Venus-hair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm100314_097

March    Decatur County    GA

Pinnae alternate, distant. Compound near base, simple near apex, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Adiantum capillus-veneris, Southern Maidenhair Fern, Venus-hair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm100314_099

March    Decatur County    GA

Rachis dark brown, smooth, slender, and brittle, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Adiantum capillus-veneris, Southern Maidenhair Fern, Venus-hair Fern

JK Marlow    jkm100314_102

March    Decatur County    GA

Fronds pendant or arching, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Adiantum capillus-veneris, Southern Maidenhair Fern, Venus-hair Fern

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_capillusveneris_1

April        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Adiantum capillus-veneris   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Adiantum capillus-veneris

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Adiantum capillus-veneris

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Adiantum capillus-veneris

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 010-01-002:
Adiantum capillus-veneris   FAMILY Pteridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Adiantum capillus-veneris

 

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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Moist calcareous substrates, in the Coastal Plain on ‘marl’ (coquina limestone) (NC and SC), on calcareous clay bluffs (GA), and adventive on lime mortar of old buildings and walls (as in Wilmington and Fayetteville, NC); in the Mountains and Interior Low Plateau on limestone or other calcareous sedimentary rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas & Georgia, and the GA Mountains

Rare

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LEAVES:
Partially evergreen
2-pinnate

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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