Lygodium oligostachyum
Maidenhair Creeper
Lygodium flexuosum
(L.) Sw. Species
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- Botanical name
- Lygodium flexuosum
- Also known as
- Maidenhair Creeper, Maidenhair-Creeper
- Family
- Lygodiaceae
- Genus
- Lygodium
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Maidenhair Creeper
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Lygodium flexuosum but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Hydroglossum elegans
Hydroglossum flexuosum
Hydroglossum pinnatifidum
Hydroglossum scandens
Hydroglossum semipinnatum
Lygodium elegans
Lygodium flexuosum var. accidens
Lygodium flexuosum var. setulosum
Lygodium maculatum
Lygodium meyenianum
Lygodium pilosum
Lygodium pinnatifidum
Lygodium polymorphum
Lygodium pubescens
Lygodium rottlerianum
Lygodium scandens
Lygodium semibipinnatum
Lygodium serrulatum
Lygodium tenue
Odontopteris scandens
Ophioglossum flexuosum
Ophioglossum scandens
Ramondia flexuosa
Ramondia scandens
Ugena polymorpha
Others in Lygodium
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