Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Adiantum aethiopicum |
| Common Name: | common maidenhair |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00), 5" Pot ($5.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Fern, Ground Cover (up to 30 cm), Popular (home), Popular (bulk) |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Moist, Well Drained |
| Size (HxW): | 10-45 cm x spreading |
| Foliage: | Delicate lacy pale yellow-green fronds, darkening as they age, on slender reddish-brown to black stems. Frond divided 2-3 times, final leaflets fan- to wedge-shaped, 3-12 mm x 3-13 mm, outer edge scalloped. |
| Flowers: | Non-flowering. 1-4 large spore cases sunken into the lobe of leaflet and covered by kidney-shaped leaflet flap. |
| General Comments: | Tufted perennial herb spreading from slender, scale-covered branching stems which creep both above and below ground to form a spreading groundcover. Grow rapidly in autumn & spring. Likes moist well drained soils near creeks and in foothills in moist to dry forests. |
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| Plant Propagation: | Propagation is from plant division or by spores. |
