| Scientific Name: | Adiantum pedatum |
| Common Name: | maidenhair fern |
| Family Name: | Pteridaceae |
| Origin: | B.C. west of Cascades, U.S. - northwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Fern |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Alpine, Bedding plant, Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Forestry, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Indoor plant, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Small garden/space, Summer interest, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Digitate (palmate), Odd-pinnate, Bipinnate, Elliptic, Oblong, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Frond with black stipe and fan-shaped blade with (3-)7-9 pinnae, most elliptical, 15-22(-30)cm long x 3-5cm wide; central pinnules mostly oblong, 10-25mm long x 8-13mm wide, apex obtuse with a few small shallow lobes, margin entire on one side, opposite margin with reflexed lobes partially covering oblong sori, 1-3mm long. | |