Adiantum pedatum |
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adiante du Canada, five-fingered fern, northern maidenhair, northern maidenhair fern |
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Stems | short-creeping; scales bronzy deep yellow, concolored, margins entire. |
Leaves | lax-arching (rarely pendent), closely spaced, 40–75 cm. |
Petiole | 1–2 mm diam., glabrous, occasionally glaucous. |
Blade | fan-shaped, pseudopedate, 1-pinnate distally, 15–30 × 15–35 cm, glabrous; proximal pinnae 3–9-pinnate; rachis straight, glabrous, occasionally glaucous. |
Ultimate segments | oblong, ca. 3 times as long as broad; basiscopic margin straight; acroscopic margin lobed, lobes separated by narrow incisions 0–0.9(–1.1) mm wide; apex obtuse, divided into shallow, rounded lobes separated by shallow sinuses 0.1–2(–3.7) mm deep, margins of lobes crenulate or crenate-denticulate. |
Indusia | transversely oblong, 1–3 mm, glabrous. |
Spores | mostly 34–40 µm diam. 2n = 58. |
Segment | stalks 0.5–1.5(–1.7) mm, dark color entering into segment base. |
Adiantum pedatum |
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Phenology | Sporulating summer–fall. |
Habitat | Rich, deciduous woodlands, often on humus-covered talus slopes and moist lime soils |
Elevation | 0–700 m (0–2300 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; NS; ON; QC
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Discussion | Once considered a single species across its range in North America and eastern Asia, Adiantum pedatum is considered to be a complex of at least three vicariant species (A. pedatum and A. aleuticum occur in North America) and a derivative allopolyploid species (C. A. Paris 1991). Adiantum pedatum in the strict sense is restricted to deciduous woodlands in eastern North America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 2. |
Parent taxa | Pteridaceae > Adiantum |
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Synonyms | A. pedatum, A. pedatum |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1095. (1753) |
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