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Athyrium filix-femina (Lady fern)

Other names: Tatting fern

A. filix-femina has lacey fronds radiating from a central crown in a fresh green. It is a fast-growing fern forming a clump of lacy, bipinnate, lance-shaped fronds, and the leaf segments have toothed margins. In some plants the midrib is red, in others green.
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1m max. spread

1m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Osmunda cinnamomeum (Cinnamon fern)

Other names: Osmundastrum cinnamomeum

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0.6m max. spread

0.9m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Rumohra adiantiformis (Leather fern)

Other names: Leatherleaf fern, Iron fern

R. adiantiformis is a tender, variable, clump-forming, evergreen, terrestrial or epiphytic fern with triangular or ovate, bi- to tri-pinnate, leathery, dark green fronds divided into oblong or diamond-shaped segments (pinnae).
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1m max. spread

1.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Dryopteris lepidopoda (Sunset fern)

Other names: Dryopteris filix-mas subsp. khasiana, Dryopteris junlianensis, Dryopteris longistipes, Dryopteris nigra, Dryopteris taiwanicola

D. lepidopoda is a clump-forming, evergreen to semi-evergreen fern with upright to slightly arching fronds, orange-pink to orange-red when young, then yellow, and maturing to dark green.
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0.6m max. spread

0.6m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Dryopteris filix-mas (Male fern)

Other names: Basket fern, Shield fern, Dryopteris filix mas

D. filix-mas is a vigorous, clump-forming, deciduous fern with upright, lance-shaped, bipinnate, mid-green fronds divided into narrowly lance-shaped pinnae with small, oval segments.
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1m max. spread

1.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Myrrhis odorata (Sweet cecily)

Other names: Sweet chervil, Sweet Mary, Great chervil, Myrr, Sweet bracken, Anise, British myrrh, Garden myrrh, Sweet fern, Sweet cicely

M. odorata is an erect, herbaceous perennial with pinnate, aromatic, edible, bright green leaves divided into toothed, oblong to lance-shaped segments and, in early summer, branching stems bearing umbels of tiny, star-shaped, white flowers followed by glossy, ridged, brown fruit.decorative seed-pods.
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1m max. spread

1.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Salvinia natans (Floating fern)

Other names: Floating watermoss, Water butterfly wings, Marsilea natans, Salvinia europaea

S. natans is a tender, floating, aquatic, annual fern with paired, elliptic, pale green leaves, each pair with a submerged, root-like leaf.
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0.5m max. spread

0.05m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Blechnum spicant (Hard fern)

Other names: Rusty back, Snake fern, Deer fern

B. spicant is a small evergreen fern with spreading, narrow, dark-green fronds bearing comb-like leaves.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Stegnogramma pozoi (Stegnogramma )

Other names: Swamp fern, Thelypteris pozoi, Gymnogramma mollissima, Leptogramma mollissima

S. pozoi is a terrestrial or epiphytic, boderline hardy, deciduous to semi-evergreen fern bearing erect to arching, lance-shaped, pinnate, bright green fronds with hairy, oblong, rounded, paired pinnae. Spores are produced from late spring to late summer.
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0.8m max. spread

0.6m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Asparagus densiflorus 'Myersii' (Plume asparagus)

Other names: Foxtail fern, Asparagus meyeri, Asparagus 'Myers', Asparagus densiflorus 'Meyersii', Asparagus densiflorus 'Meyers'

'Myersii' is a tender, compact, tuberous, evergreen perennial with upright to arching stems bearing smaller, leaf-like, bright green stems. Racemes of insignificant, white flowers in summer are followed by bright red fruit.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity