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Maidenhair Spleenwort
Asplenium trichomanes
• Family: Aspleniaceae
• Habitat: shaded limestone, moss-covered outcrops
• Height: fronds 3-6 inches long
• Location of spores: few spore cases on undersides of leaflets
• Stipe (leaf stalk): dark purple-brown and wiry
• Growth pattern: asymmetric clump
• Persistence: evergreen
Maidenhair spleenwort fronds are often bent.
Underside of a frond, showing the oblong sori (spore-bearing dots).
A group of maidenhair spleenworts in their typical habitat -- a mossy limestone cliff.