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Adiantum pedatum
Also called Northern maidenhair fern, Five Finger Fern, Pointerweed, Maidenfern, Maidenhair, Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum, the northern maidenhair fern, is a species of fern in the family Pteridaceae, native to moist forests in eastern North America. Like other ferns in the genus, the name maidenhair refers to the slender, shining black stipes. Taxonomy classification disputes occur due to the distribution of A. Pedatum in both North America and East Asia.
A. pedatum is the most northern species within the genus, occupying regions in Eastern Asia (EA) and North America (NA), and categorized by a disjunct distribution due to climate and geological occurrence. The EA-NA disjunction of A. pedatum is a focal point for botanists and is speculated to have occurred due to multiple geographic events.
Adiantum aethiopicum · Adiantum alarconianum · Aleutian maidenhair · Adiantum amblyopteridium · Maidenhair fern · Bermuda Maidenhair Fern · Common maidenhair · Tailed maidenhair · Chilean Maidenhair Fern · Adiantum ciliatum · Polished maidenhair · Cunningham's Maidenhair
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adiantum pedatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
