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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Ferns
  5. Polypodiales
  6. Brake Family
  7. Vittarioideae

subfamily

Vittarioideae

Vittarioideae

Includes
10 native 4 introduced 6 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Huruhuru Tapairu 7 native
  • Shoestring Fern 2 native
  • Haplopteris 1 native
  • Vaginularia
  • Polytaenium
  • Antrophyum
  • Hecistopteris

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native Vittarioideae All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Black Maidenhair Fern Adiantum capillus-veneris caterpillars 1 food 5
  • Northern Maidenhair Fern Adiantum pedatum caterpillars 1
  • Fan Maidenhair Fern Adiantum tenerum caterpillars 1
  • Fragrant Maidenhair Fern Adiantum melanoleucum caterpillars 1
  • Western Maidenhair Fern Adiantum aleuticum
  • California Maidenhair Fern Adiantum jordanii
  • Shoestring Fern Vittaria lineata
  • Shasta Maidenhair Fern Adiantum shastense
  • Appalachian Shoestring Fern Vittaria appalachiana
  • Green Mountain Maidenhair Fern Adiantum viridimontanum
  • Vittaria graminifolia
  • Tape Fern Haplopteris elongata

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