Wood Fern

Growth habit

Fern

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Japan, Taiwan

Location

Groundcover Collection

Source of plant

Gossler Farms Nursery

Description

Rhizomes stout, short creeping, scales deciduous, linear, dark brown. Stipes 30-60cm, rather stout, stramineous. Fronds 20-50 x 20-35cm, broadly ovate, pinnate, pinnae in 2-5 pairs, linear-lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, oblique, acuminate, rounded at base, sessile or subsessile, coriaceous-chartaceous, pubescent beneath, sterile pinnae 10-30 x 3-7cm, crenate to mucronate-dentate, fertile pinnae 10-25 x 1.5-3.5cm, subentire to crenate; rachis 5-20cm, rather stout, stramineous.

USDA Hardiness Zone

8