Crow Dog Native Ferns and Gardens

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Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas Fern)

Christmas Fern is an excellent and versatile garden fern that is evergreen and easy to grow. Its broad ecological occurrences make it adaptable to many garden settings from sunny borders to shady ground covers from wet to semi-dry conditions. It is a bunching fern that reaches 1 1/2 feet in height and two feet in diameter after a few years of growth.

Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York Fern)

T. noveboracensis is a delicately fronded long branching rhizomous fern of moist to average hillsides, stream banks, and moist lowlands. It prefers a 50% canopy, except, when in wetter environment, an open canopy to full sun. It is an excellent ground cover fern and is about 16-18 inches in height

Habitat Codes

LIGHT

L..Low filtered sunlight

M..50% canopy

H..25% canopy

FS..Full sun, 5-6 hrs.

MOISTURE

H..hydric..wet

M..mesic..average

X..xeric..dry

Woodsia obtusa (Blunt-lobed Woodsia)

Woodsia obtusa is a rock garden fern that is short rhizomous and sem-evergreen. It prefers open exposures among and at the bases of rocks. Its fronds are tall (up to 18 inches) and narrow with early sharply pointed pinna and pinnules that round out at maturity. It commonly occurs with Cheilanthes tomentosa, Cheilanthes lanosa, and Asplenium platyneuron.

Woodsia scopulina sub. appalachiana (Mountain Cliff Fern)

Woodsia scopulina subspecies appalachiana is a southern mountain fern of shaded cracks and ledges on cliffs of acidic rocks such as shale and sandstone and granite. It is appropriate for cool shaded rock gardens. It is a small semi-evergreen fern reaching about 15 inches in height.

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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.