Maiden hair fern, Pteridaceae, aleuticum = Aleutian Islands of Alaska, Western/Eastern North America, clump forming, short rhizomes, compound pedate leaf, filmy thin leaf tissue, delicate, tip of the leaf rolled over to protect where spore capsules are born, black stems, fertile, moist, well drained, rocky mossy cliff next to a waterfall, very good garden plants, irrigate in summer, gets a little brown at tips in full sun, north facing slope, herbaceous perennial, Japanese garden
