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Cystopteris fragilis (Brittle bladder fern)

Other names: Brittle fern, Fragile fern, Aspidium fragile, Cyathea fragilis, Cyclopteris fragilis, Aspidium viridulum, Aspidium dentatum

C. fragilis is a compact, clump-forming, deciduous fern with erect rhizomes bearing lance-shaped, bi- or tripinnate, grey-green fronds with pointed frond tips.
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0.2m max. spread

0.2m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Thelypteris palustris (Marsh fern)

Other names: Ground fern, Marsh buckler fern, Thelypteris thelypteroides, Eastern marsh fern, Meadow fern

T. palustris is a rhizomatous, deciduous fern with erect, long-stalked, lance-shaped, pinnate, light green fronds divided into deeply lobed, narrowly lance-shaped pinnae.
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1m max. spread

0.6m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Dryopteris carthusiana (Narrow buckler fern)

Other names: Wood fern, Dryopteris spinulosa

D. carthusiana is a deciduous to semi-evergreen fern with creeping rhizomes producing clumps or tufts of narrowly lance-shaped, bi- or tripinnate, pale green fronds.
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0.3m max. spread

0.6m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Dryopteris goldieana (Goldie's fern)

Other names: Giant wood fern, Goldie's wood fern, Goldie fern

D. goldieana is a slowly-spreading, tufted, deciduous fern with long-stalked, broadly oval, bipinnate, light green fronds with mid-green midribs.
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0.6m max. spread

1.2m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Cyrtomium falcatum (Holly fern)

Other names: Japanese holly fern, Fishtail fern, House holly fern , Phanerophlebia falcata, Polystichum falcatum , Japanese netvein hollyfern

C. falcatum is a tender to half-hardy, evergreen or semi-evergreen fern with glossy, spreading, dark green frond with thick, leathery, holly-like pinnae.
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1m max. spread

1m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Polystichum braunii (Braun's holly fern)

Other names: Bear's bed, Shield fern

P. braunii is an evergreen fern bearing arching, broadly lance-shaped, glossy, leathery, dark green fronds, scaly beneath, silvery when young, with oblong, bristly, divided pinnae.
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0.8m max. spread

0.8m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Polystichum munitum (Sword fern)

Other names: Western sword fern, Aspidium munitum, Polystichum munitum var. incisoserratum, Aspidium munitum var. incisoserratum, Polystichum solitarium

P. munitum is a large, evergreen fern with narrow, leathery, lance-shaped, pinnate, dark green fronds.
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1.2m max. spread

1.2m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Nephrolepis exaltata 'Bostoniensis' (Boston fern)

Other names: Sword fern 'Bostoniensis'

'Bostoniensis' tender, evergreen fern forming a dense clump of upright then arching, broadly lance-shaped, pinnate fronds with broadly linear, bright green pinnae.
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1m max. spread

1m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Cyathea medullaris (Black tree fern)

Other names: Sago fern, Mamaku

C. medullaris is a tender tree fern with a black, hairy trunk, and long golden green fronds.
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0.6m max. spread

1m max. height

15-20 years to maturity

Osmunda claytoniana (Interrupted fern)

Other names: Clayton's flowering fern

O. claytoniana is a clump-forming, deciduous fern with ovate to lance-shaped, bipinnate, pale blue-green sterile fronds surrounding summer-emerging, spore-bearing pinnae, near black when emerging, turning yellow-green and then russet.
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0.6m max. spread

0.9m max. height

5-10 years to maturity