| Description | Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) is a native easy to grow lacy fern found growing in the shaded areas of native areas. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Ferns - Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-8 |
| Sunlight | shade to part sun, sunnier sites require a moisture soil |
| Moisture | average to moist |
| Soil & Site | usually found growing in moist soil. |
| Flowers | Ferns do not produce flowers. They were around prior to the evolution of the flowering plants (angiosperms). This fern produces its spores on the bottom of pinnae. |
| Leaves | has an erect rhizome and tends to stand out of the ground. Fronds are bipinnate-pinnatifid and finely cut. The stipes (stems) of the fronds are easily cracked. |
| Dimensions | Reaches 1-2 feet high, growing in circular clumps with long erect fronds. Space 18-24 iches on center. |
| Maintenance | Digging in or covering the rhizome. |
| Propagation | spores, division |
| Misc Facts | The genus name Athyrium, from the Greek, a, "without" and qureos (thureos), "shield". The species filix-femina, from the Latin, "fern-feminine". This fern is variable in shape and form of leaves. Over 300 English forms have originated with this fern. |
| Notes & Reference | #80-A Field Guide to Ferns (Boughton Cobb) , #90-Ferns for American Gardens (John T Mickel) |
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