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Leptinella potentillina (Brass buttons)

Other names: Verdigris brass buttons, Green brass buttons, Verdigris mini ferns, Cotula potentilloides

L. potentillina is a cushion to mat-forming, spreading, evergreen perennial with pinnate, finely-divided, purple-to bronze-flushed, mid- to bright green leaves and insignificant yellow flower heads in summer.
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0.4m max. spread

0.05m max. height

2-5 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

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

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

Jacaranda mimosifolia (Green ebony tree)

Other names: Jacaranda acutifolia, Jacaranda ovalifolia, Jacaranda ovatifolia, Blue jacaranda, Fern tree

J. mimosifolia is a tender, spreading, deciduous tree bearing broad, pinnate leaves with small, narrowly elliptic, softly-hairy, bright green leaflets. Pyramidal panicles of white-throated, purple-blue flowers bloom on leafless branches or with emerging leaves in spring to early summer, followed by woody, disc-shaped, brown seed pods.
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10m max. spread

15m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Azolla filiculoides (Water fern)

Other names: Fairy moss, Azolla caroliniana

A. filiculoides is a tender floating aquatic plant. It has small, fern-like foliage that is red or purple in sun or green to blue-green in shade.
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0m max. spread

0.01m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Selaginella uncinata (Peacock moss)

Other names: Peacock spikemoss, Rainbow fern, Blue spike moss, Love-in-a-tangle, Blue spikemoss

S. uncinata is a trailing, stem-rooting, semi-evergreen perennial forming a mat of pinnate branches bearing pinnate, metallic blue-green leaves.
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0.6m max. spread

0.05m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Osmunda regalis (Royal fern)

Other names: Rusty fern, Water fern, Osmund royal, King fern, Common flowering fern, Ditch fern, Buckhorn brake, Blooming fern, Herb christopher

O. regalis is a hardy fern, forming a large clump of bipinnate fronds with russet-brown spores at the tips. The fronds are flushed red in autumn.
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1m max. spread

2.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Onoclea sensibilis (Sensitive fern)

Other names: Bead fern, Japanese ostrich fern, Ostrich fern

O. sensibilis is a deciduous fern with broad, pale green, lobed fronds.
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2.5m max. spread

0.6m max. height

5-10 years to maturity