Easy, tough, adaptable. One of the few native ferns that can tolerate full sun here (Boston Z6a). Requires good drainage.
...Read MoreThis does not form clumps, but rather fronds spring up along a shallow, fast-running rhizome (it grows about 12" per year). This is a good groundcover for a big wild area, but it's too aggressive for the perennial border, where I'd consider it a thug. It outcompetes most other herbaceous plants, and is said to poison some through allelopathic chemicals.
Very easy to transplant rhizomes most of the year. I cut off mature fronds first and move foot-long rhizomes.
The fronds are a light apple-green but not yellow or chartreuse. They smell of new-mown hay when crushed or bruised.
It is a fast spreading groundcover of very soft, light weight, bright green, bipinnate fronds about 2 feet high. It does smell like hay w...Read Morehen one bruises the foliage. It is sold at some larger garden centers in the East and Midwest; not everyone carries it. I know of some wild colonies in French Creek State Park in southeast Pennsylvania near Reading, and Jenkins Arboretum west of Philadelphia has some big colonies. It is native to the eastern US, so it is only invasive in that it can invade the area of other plants in the garden by underground rhizomes and it can reproduce by spores to come up in other garden areas. I know of some appearing in an area under some Dwarf Fothergilla and through Common Periwinkle in a landscape.
In my Zone 5a garden, an attractive, low fern whose tenacity can be a virtue in the right location. I have paired this fern with spring b...Read Morelooming bulbs (tulips, daffodils and hyacinth) which it nicely covers over as it grows, and tall asiatic lilies and columbines that rise above later in the summer.
Native to the north-eastern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ke...Read Morentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,Rhose Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,Vermont, Wisconsin, and West Virginia).
Considered an endangered species in the state of Illinois.
Oklahoma City, OK (Zone 7a) | October 2004 | positive
Fragrant perennial, thus the name. Green fronds, triangle to oval shaped heavily-divided, lacy leaflets. Tolerates poor soil, but prefe...Read Morers a slightly acidic soil. Prefers regular waterings. Can reach a height of 30". Prefers full shade. Native to the Eastern U.S. Can be propagated by spring division of rhizomes or when it sporlates in summer.
Easy, tough, adaptable. One of the few native ferns that can tolerate full sun here (Boston Z6a). Requires good drainage.
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It is a fast spreading groundcover of very soft, light weight, bright green, bipinnate fronds about 2 feet high. It does smell like hay w...Read More
In my Zone 5a garden, an attractive, low fern whose tenacity can be a virtue in the right location. I have paired this fern with spring b...Read More
Native to the north-eastern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ke...Read More
Fragrant perennial, thus the name. Green fronds, triangle to oval shaped heavily-divided, lacy leaflets. Tolerates poor soil, but prefe...Read More