Asplenium trichomanes gallery
Dainty fern whose fronds form rosettes on cliffs and boulders
Maidenhair Spleenwort Gallery
Fern cluster
Maidenhair fern grows in clusters/rosettes on limestone rock.
Spring Creek Canyon (Centre Co)
by Maria Pavlova on 04/29/2013
Sorus and indusium
Mount Pisgah State Park (Bradford Co)
by Colin Gillette on 07/20/2023
Frond
Mount Pisgah State Park (Bradford Co)
by Colin Gillette on 07/20/2023
Fronds
Mount Pisgah State Park (Bradford Co)
by Colin Gillette on 07/20/2023
Plant form
Mount Pisgah State Park (Bradford Co)
by Colin Gillette on 07/20/2023
Fern tufts and habitat
Spring Creek (Centre Co)
by Maria Pavlova on 09/25/2021
Pinnae
Spring Creek (Centre Co)
by Maria Pavlova on 09/25/2021
Growing with Wall-rue fern
Spleenworts often grow together. Here Maidenhair spleenwort is growing with A. ruta-muraria
Spring Creek (Centre Co)
by Maria Pavlova on 09/25/2021
Rossette
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Spring Creek (Centre Co)
by Maria Pavlova on 09/25/2021
Frond detail
Pinnae of this fern are tiny and opposite.
Colerain State Park (Huntingdon Co)
by Maria Pavlova on 10/15/2011
On the rocks
Spring Creek (Centre Co)
by Joel Bolden on 11/06/2022
Pinnae and rachis
Mount Pisgah State Park (Bradford Co)
by Colin Gillette on 10/15/2023
Young growth
Mount Pisgah State Park (Bradford Co)
by Colin Gillette on 10/15/2023
Fern cover
Spring Creek (Centre Co)
by Maria Pavlova on 11/06/2011
Winter growth
This little fern stays green in the winter, here it grows together with another rock-loving fern, Cystopteris bulbifera (not evergreen)