Royal Fern
Osmunda regalis
Osmundaceae
Growth habit
Fern
Perennation
Long-lived polycarpic perennial
Native distribution
Europe to Pakistan, Meditteranean
Location
Floriculture War Memorial Trail, Mundy Wildflower Garden
Source of plant
Sunny Border Ohio, Bluebird Nursery Inc.
Description
Stipes 30-45cm, tufted, erect, firm, naked. Fronds 60-80x30cm, bipinnate, fertile pinnae at apex, sterile pinnae 15-30x5-10cm, pinnules 2.5-5x1-2cm, oblong, blunt, often asymmetric at base, sessile or subpetiolate, margins finely minutely serrate; fertile pinnules cylindric, forming large panicles; rachis black-pubescent.
USDA Hardiness Zone
2