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Athyrium filix-femina


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The lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina, is a beautiful and elegant native fern with pale green deciduous fronds.


Description:
The lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina, is a beautiful and elegant native fern with pale green deciduous fronds that can reach 3-4 feet long offering a wonderful presence in the shade garden. Easy to grow and vigorous in shady locations in average to moist soils.


Common Name: Lady Fern

Family: Dryopteridaceae (The Wood Fern Family)

Zone Hardiness: 4-8

Light: Full Shade, Part Shade, Part Sun

Height: 2-4'

Width: 2-3'

Primary Bloom Colour: Green

Secondary Bloom Colour: Green

Class: Deciduous

Type: Perennial

Bloom Time:

Soil Moisture: Moist, Average

Stem Colour:

Fragrance: No

Berries: No

Benefits:

Deer Resistant: Yes

BC Native: Yes

Native Habitat: In moist to wet forested thickets and along streambanks, sometimes in swamps.

Award: AGM

Geogrpahical Origin: Miscellaneous - Circumboreal

Americas - North America

Asia and the Pacific - North Central and Eastern Asia

Europe and Africa - Europe and Western Russia

Asia and the Pacific - Asia - China and Japan

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