Atlas of North European vascular plants
Hultén & Fries 1986
31 Adiantum capillus-veneris L.
This widespread species may hardly be called N. European. Outside the map area it is distributed in Africa, S. Asia, C. and S. America and Australia, etc. The species is classified among the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 148 and map 139).