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Adiantum pedatum |
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| Common name |
American maidenhair fern |
| Family |
pteridaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z3-8) |
| Size |
12-30" |
| Light |
part-full shade |
Pretty fern native to eastern North America. Delicate divided fronds offset by reddish-brown to black stems. When I saw the plant in the state shown at right, in mid-May of its second year in our garden, I was reminded of a line in a famous Dutch poem by Marsman, in which the countryside is described as having "unthinkably thin poplars" ("ondenkbaar ijle populieren"). This fern is even unthinkably thinner!
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| | I found the declining foliage (mid-November) to be curiously attractive |
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| | They look so vulnerable when the fronds first return in late April |
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
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