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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

Dryopteris cristata (Crested Wood Fern)

D. cristata has narrow lanceolate pinnate-pinnatifid fronds with pinna that are twisted nearly perpendicular to the plane of the blade. It is found in cool and moist forests, on rocky slopes, and in seeps and stream banks. It has an ascending rhizome with an asymmetrical display of fronds to 16 inches in height. 

 

Dryopteris filix-mas (Male Fern)

Male Fern occurs in the Upper Great Lakes region and in the Rocky Mountains from Arizona to Washington typically in rocky habitats such as wooded boulder fields and wooded talus slopes. Its deciduous fronds can reach four feet in height. It is distinguished from other similar Dryopteris species by the presence of two distinct kinds of scales: broad and hairlike.

Dryopteris goldiana (Goldie's Wood Fern)

Goldie’s Wood Fern is the largest Dryopteris species from the Carolinas northward. It is an erect rhizome fern of dense moist woods and seeps (especially rocky ravines). It can reach 45 inches in height with fronds up to 15 inches wide. It is good as a centerpiece plant in a shady garden with rocks and borders of ponds, streams, and other wetlands.

Dryopteris intermedia (Fancy Fern)

D. intermedia prefers cool forests (often rocky), coves, and edges of wetlands of the Appalachians. It has an ascending rhizome, and a conical display of fronds up to 35 inches in height. D. intermedia will flourish in shady, moist rock gardens with rich soil in the mountains and slopes along the Carolina Inner Piedmont and north.

Dryopteris marginal is (Marginal Wood Fern)

D. marginalis is an evergreen fern with an ascending rhizome forming a conical distribution of fronds that reach a height of 24 inches. Its native habitat is usually rocky. It is excellent in borders, in mesic forests, along stream/pond banks in shade, and shady rock gardens. It is particularly drought tolerant.

Onoclea sensibilis (Sensitive Fern)

Onoclea sensibilis is a wonderful ground cover of 1-pinnatifid light green fronds that likes average garden moisture and part sun. When its fronds emerge in the spring, they are a beautiful pinkish-purple until they mature. It is a branching rhizomous creeping fern and is dimorphic. Fertile fronds arise in the early fall as tall narrow stalks with rows of bead-shaped sori. It can reach a height of 1 1/2 feet.

Osmunda cinnamomea (Cinnamon Fern)

This is a cosmopolitan fern of the eastern half of North America. It is found in moist meadows, sunny marshes, and moist thin canopy forests. It grows to 40 inches in height. Its fronds are conical style from an erect rhizome. It is excellent in sunny wetland gardens, around water bodies with some full sun, and in moist, open woods. with a thin canopy.

Osmunda claytoniana (Interrupted Fern)

This is a cosmopolitan fern of the eastern half of North America. It is found in moist meadows, sunny marshes, and moist thin canopy forests. It grows to 40 inches in height. Its fronds are conical style from an erect rhizome. It is excellent in sunny wetland gardens, around water bodies with some full sun, and in moist, open woods. with a thin canopy.