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Fancy Fern, Glandular Wood Fern

The Evergreen Wood Fern is a lacy evergreen wood fern that typically grows to 1-3’ tall with upright arching fronds to 40” long and 8” wide.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons | Homer Edward Price

Larval Host for the

SIZE

SOIL

Medium, Moist, Rich, Humus, Loam

LIGHT

Part Shade, Shade

BENEFITS

Birds, Toads, Small Mammals

NOTES

Semi-Evergreen in mild winter climates. Cut off old fronts in late winter. Do not allow soil to dry out.

CHARACTERISTICS

Low Maintenance, Semi-Evergreen, Winter Interest, Tolerates Rabbits, Tolerates Clay, Tolerates Heavy Shade

Fern

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Evergreen Wood Fern

Dryopteris intermedia

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DESCRIPTION

The Evergreen Wood Fern is a lacy evergreen wood fern that typically grows to 1-3’ tall with upright arching fronds to 40” long and 8” wide.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons | Homer Edward Price
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