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Maidenhair Fern Delicate pale-green fronds on wiry black stalks. Segments are fan-shaped, the outer margin curved, deep-cut or entire. Parallel, linear sori covered by small membraneous lobes. Shortly creeping rhyzome covered with narrow brown scales. Frost-tender. Coastal, native in West of Ireland, moist calcareous rock-crevices Co. Clare to Donegal. Can be locally frequent in grikes on limestone pavements in the Burren and on Aran Islands. Occasionally recorded as garden escape in sheltered areas. |
Maidenhair Fern. The Burren, Co.Clare. May 2008