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LIGHT
L..Low filtered sunlight
M..50% canopy
H..25% canopy
FS..Full sun, 5-6 hrs.
MOISTURE
Moisture: H..hydric..wet
M..mesic..average
X..xeric..dry
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.
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pH 4-7
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Zone 3-9 | Light M | Moisture H-X | Evergreen |
Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken Fern)
Bracken Fern is a long and deep running rhizomatous fern that occurs on dry sunny slopes and dry open-canopy forests where other herbaceous species, except grasses, are scarce. It also often grows thickly in well drained and sunny meadows. It is a tall (up to 3 feet) ground cover fern and is deciduous.
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pH 4-5.5
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Zone 3-9 | Light H-FS | Moisture M-X | Deciduous |
Pellea atropurpurea is strictly a rock garden fern and prefers crevices in rock high in calcium such as marble, limestone, and amphibolite. It is a small 1-pinnate fern with dark purple stipes and dark blue-green pinna. It is most often found on rocks on open canopy to sunny slopes.
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pH ~7
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Zone 3-8 | Light M | Moisture M-X | Evergreen |
Broad Beech Fern is a long rhizome fern with vertical stipes and nearly horizontal broadly triangular blades. The lowest pinna pair is reflexed upward on the adaxial surface out of the plane of the pinna pairs above. The winged rachis makes the fronds 2-pinnatifid. It forms a beautiful light green,1 2 inch high ground cover.
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pH 5.5-7
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Zone 3-9 | Light L-M | Moisture M | Deciduous |
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
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pH 5-6
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Zone 3-8 | Light M | Moisture H-M | Deciduous |
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.
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pH 5-6
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Zone 3-8 | Light M | Moisture H-M | Deciduous |
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.
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pH 5-6
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Zone 6-8 | Light M-FS | Moisture H-M | Deciduous |
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.
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pH 5-6
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Zone 4-9 | Light M-FS | Moisture M | Evergreen |
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