| Scientific Name: | Adiantum spp. |
| Common Name: | maidenhair fern |
| Family Name: | Pteridaceae |
| Origin: | South America, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Fern, Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant, Waterside planting |
| Exposure: | Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Bipinnate, Tripinnate, Deltoid, Oblong, Rhomboidal, Sinuate |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| For common local species, stipes are wiry and reddish-brown to black; frond blades 1-5(-9) pinnate, pinnules mostly trianglular, fan-shaped, lobes on lt least one margin, pale green; sori marginal and usually protected by a false indusium formed from the reflexed leaf margin. | |