Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
Lime-green fan-shaped leaflets on wiry black stalks cascade in overlapping tiers from wet limestone seeps and grotto walls. The most delicate-looking of the maidenhairs and the most tender, needing constant moisture, high humidity and alkaline rock to look like itself.
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Type
- fern
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.75–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.75–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NM, NV, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA