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§1 Plant
Adiantum capillus-veneris L.
vernacular common maidenhair — species · Pteridaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Fern
- Family
- Pteridaceae E.D.M. Kirchn.
- Genus
- Adiantum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- HI Hawaii Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b
County-level range
· 107 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 2 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.7 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 3,000,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 107 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Clarke 01025
- Colbert 01033
- Conecuh 01035
- Crenshaw 01041
- Dallas 01047
- DeKalb 01049
- Escambia 01053
- Etowah 01055
- Franklin 01059
- Henry 01067
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Jefferson 01073
- Lauderdale 01077
- Lowndes 01085
- Marshall 01095
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Montgomery 01101
- Russell 01113
- Wilcox 01131
Arizona view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Boone 05009
- Carroll 05015
- Cleburne 05023
- Crawford 05033
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Hot Spring 05059
- Izard 05065
- Johnson 05071
- Lee 05077
- Logan 05083
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Pope 05115
- Searcy 05129
- Stone 05137
- Van Buren 05141
- Washington 05143
Florida view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ADCA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2651816 ↗Record version
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