Crow Dog Native Ferns and Gardens Catalog Page 4 Landscaping with Native Ferns SpeciesAvailability Home
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Thelypteris palustris (Marsh Fern)
Marsh Fern is very widespread in Eastern North America, but is generally restricted to moist areas such as stream banks, marshes, floodplains, and seeps. It is long rhizomatous and similar morphologically to New York Fern. It is an excellent ground cover fern around water features and in low lying areas that stay wet to moist. pH 5-6 Zone 3-8 Light M Moisture H-M Deciduous |
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| Woodwardia areolata (Netted Chain Fern) This is a long rhizomous fern of moist ditches, stream banks, marshes, and moist meadows. It often produces a scattered ground cover of 10-20 inch fronds. It is an excellent ground cover and can be used as a lower layer around taller sun loving plants such as Eupatoriums, sedges, Osmundaceae ferns, and Juncus. pH 4-6 Zone 6-8 Light M-FS Moisture H-M Deciduous |
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Woodwardia virginica (Virginia Chain Fern)
Virginia Chain Fern is mostly a eastern US coastal plain species from Texas to Maine, but also occurs from Pennsylvania and New York westward to Lake Michigan. It occurs in sunny wet areas, is long rhizomitous, and has fronds to 3 feet in hight. Like W. areolata its fronds have netted venation.
pH 5-6 Zone 4-9 Light M-FS Moisture H-M Deciduous |
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Woodsia obtusa (Blunt-lobed Woodsia)
Woodsia obtusa is a rock garden fern that is short rhizomatous and semi-evergreen. It prefers open exposures among and at the bases of rocks. It has upright narrow fronds to 18 inches and smaller basal fronds. It commonly occurs with Cheilanthes tomentosa, Cheilanthes lanosa, and Asplenium platyneuron. pH 5-6 Zone 4-9 Light M-FS Moisture M-X Deciduous |
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