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Ferns

American Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum pedatum

Christmas Fern

Polystichum acrostichoides

Cinnamon Fern

Osmunda cinnamonea

Ebony Spleenwort Fern

Asplenium platyneuron

Hayscented Fern

Dennstaedtia punctilobula

Japanese Painted Fern

Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum'

Leatherwood Fern

Dryopteris marginalis

Royal Fern

Osmunda regalis

Sensitive Fern

Onoclea sensibilis

Southern Lady Fern

Athyrium asplenioides

Toothwood Fern

Dryopteris spinulosa

Walking Fern

Camptosorus rhizophyllus


The American Sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, is a very adaptabe and rugged tree. American Sycamore trees are fast growing, large shade trees with a massive trunk and a have a wide-spreading open crown of large crooked branches. This deciduous tree has a smooth almost white bark when mature.

The Sensitive Fern, Onoclea sensibilis, is a large, somewhat coarse deciduous fern which occurs in wet woods and thickets and in moist soils along streams and springs. Sensitive Ferns can grow up to 4' tall. It features long-stalked, deeply pinnatifid, bright green, vegetative (sterile) fronds (2-4' long) with leathery, triangular leaflets (pinnae) which have distinctively netted veins. Some shorter, erect, woody-like fertile fronds (to 12" tall), typically brown up in late summer and persist throughout the remaining season and winter. It is commonly called sensitive fern because the green vegetative fronds are sensitive to and suffer almost immediate damage from the first fall frost. This deciduous perennial fern is also sensitive to drought. It performs best in wet woodland gardens and moist locations along streams and ponds. Also appropriate for shaded areas of a native plant garden or naturalized planting.

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