Adiantum capillus-veneris L.

PTERIDACEAE

- Maidenhair Fern family Pteridophyta (Ferns)

Taxon Page:

Name: Adiantum capillus-veneris L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 1096 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Common maidenhair

English name: maidenhair fern

English name: southern maidenhair

Italian name: Capelvenere comune

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Adiantum capillus-veneris L. var. modestum (Underw.) Fernald
= Adiantum capillus-veneris L. var. protrusum Fernald
= Adiantum modestum Underw.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Adiantum capillus-veneris L. var. modestum (Underw.) Fernald
2) Adiantum capillus-veneris L. var. protrusum Fernald

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: -
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Filicopsida
Subclass: -
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Genus: Adiantum
Species:

Page counter: 974 ( AVG: 222.13 / 291.24 )

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Adiantum capillus-veneris
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Vittorio Veneto, pendici del Monte Altare. , TV, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Adiantum capillus-veneris
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Credit: Photo by Giuliano Frangini

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Prati nei pressi di Leonforte., EN, Sicilia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Credit: Photo by Villiam Morelli

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Gardone Riviera, margini dell'abitato. , BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Gary Larson - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Credit: Photo by Villiam Morelli

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Tivoli, Giardini della Villa D'Este, RO, Lazio, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Tivoli, Cortile della Villa D'Este, RO, Lazio, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Credit: Photo by Giuliano Frangini

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Adiantum capillus-veneris
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 31.

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Credit: Photo by Villiam Morelli

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Adiantum capillus-veneris
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NM, NV, OH, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA), USA+ (Puerto Rico), CAN (BC)

Distributional map for Adiantum capillus-veneris L.
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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Adiantum capillus-veneris L. var. modestum (Underw.) Fernald [169]
2) Adiantum capillus-veneris L. var. protrusum Fernald [148]
3) Adiantum cristatum L. [124]
4) Adiantum hexagona auct. non L. p.p. [134]
5) Adiantum modestum Underw. [167]
6) Adiantum pedatum L. ssp. calderi Cody [156]
7) Adiantum raddianum C. Presl [2709]
8) Adipera laevigata (Willd.) Britton & Rose [154]
9) Adonis vernalis L. [1888]
10) Aegilops cylindrica Host var. rubiginosa Popova [183]

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