Category / Dryopteris - Ferns

Easy to cultivate and well-behaved, Dryopteris marginalis (Marginal Wood Fern) is a vase-shaped, evergreen fern forming a rosette of ascending to arching, lanceolate-ovate, bipinnate-pinnatifid fronds. Leathery and blue-green, the fronds feature 12-20…

One of the most handsome of ferns available, award-winning Dryopteris wallichiana (Alpine Wood Fern) is a stately semi-evergreen fern forming a tuft of lance-shaped, arching fronds from an erect rhizome. Arising in…

Noted for its excellent spring foliage color, Dryopteris wallichiana Jurassic Gold (Alpine Wood Fern) is a deciduous or semi-evergreen fern forming a compact tuft of lance-shaped fronds from an erect rhizome. Arising…

Award-winning Dryopteris cycadina (Shaggy Wood Fern) is a graceful semi-evergreen fern forming a neat rosette of lance-shaped, divided, bright green fronds. Arising in shuttlecock-like clusters from a short creeping rhizome, the fronds…

Dryopteris erythrosora ‘Brilliance’ (Autumn Fern) is an evergreen fern with strikingly orange-red new fronds in spring, which contrast beautifully with the shiny, dark green, mature fronds. Fading to lustrous summer green as…

One of the most colorful ferns in the genus Dryopteris, Dryopteris erythrosora (Autumn Fern) is a clump-forming, semi-evergreen fern with broadly triangular, arching fronds. In spring, its new fronds are suffused with…

Dryopteris expansa (Spreading Wood Fern) is a deciduous fern forming an upright tuft of finely divided, broad, triangular, dark green fronds from a scaly rhizome. Round and pale green, the sori are…

Dryopteris filix-mas (Male Fern) is a large, deciduous fern with erect, stout rhizomes supporting graceful bouquets of lance-shaped, dull green fronds. Tapering at the base, each frond (blade) is pinnate-pinnatifid with 20-30…

One of the largest and handsomest of the North American species of Dryopteris, Dryopteris goldieana (Giant Wood Fern) is an upright deciduous fern forming a rosette of broadly oval fronds, in variable…

Making a dramatic statement in the landscape, Dryopteris intermedia (Intermediate Wood Fern) is a vase shaped, evergreen to semi-evergreen fern with large, lacy, upright arching fronds. Oval to narrowly triangular, the glossy…

Great for swampy or wet areas of the garden, Dryopteris ludoviciana (Southern Wood Fern) is a semi-evergreen fern with a short erect or creeping rhizome and masses of lance-shaped, shiny, dark green…

Award-winning Dryopteris affinis (Golden Male Fern) is a robust semi-evergreen fern forming a rosette of finely cut, arching fronds from an erect, stout rhizome. Arising in shuttlecock-like clusters, the fronds are bright…

Dryopteris arguta (Coastal Wood Fern) is a vase shaped, evergreen fern with lacy, upright, dark green fronds up to 2 ft. long (60 cm). They are borne in clusters from a stout,…

Dryopteris carthusiana (Spinulose Wood Fern) is a semi-evergreen fern forming a vase-like tuft of narrow, lacy, finely toothed, and dissected, bright lime-green fronds. Dryopteris carthusiana (Spinulose Wood Fern) is a semi-evergreen fern…

Worthy of landscape culture, Dryopteris cristata (Crested Wood Fern) is a semi-evergreen, clump-forming fern forming a rosette of narrowly oblong, twice pinnate fronds, cut into about 20 pairs of short-stemmed leaflets. The…