Family: Cystopteridaceae
(Brittle Fern Family)
· Hardiness Zones: 4-8
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Height: 12-30 inches
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Spread: 24 inches
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Bloom Time:
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Bloom:
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Light: part shade to deep shade
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Soil: slightly basic, humus-rich,
moist, well-drained rocky or peaty
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Moisture: requires consistent moisture
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Use: woodland garden, shaded rock
gardens, shaded rocky banks
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Care: low maintenance; before planting
in neutral soil, improve it by burying limestone fragments; mature clumps may
be divided;
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Concerns: no serious insect or disease
problems
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Native to: moist calcareous regions of
eastern Canada, eastern and midwestern United States, Arizona
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Notes: fast growing deciduous
rock-loving fern; fiddleheads appear in early spring on reddish stems and develop
into graceful asymmetric rosettes of erect to arching medium green fronds;
fronds (12 to 30 or more inches in length and 2-5 inches in width) are widest
at the base and taper to long, slender tips; compound fronds consist of 10-25
leaflets, each with 5-15 pairs of sub-leaflets; reproduces both asexually
(spores) and vegetatively (bulblets): tiny whitish spore cases on the underside
of fertile fronds mature to dark brown and release spores in September; knot-shaped half inch bulblets form on the
undersides of some mature frond stalks and fall to the ground to form new
plants; spreads by slender creeping roots;
verticillium wilt resistant; deer resistant
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Supplier: Klein's Floral and Greenhouse
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Teaching Garden
Location & Code: Heuchera Garden E216
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