Fern Encyclopedia

Athyrium vidalii (Vidal's Lady Fern)

Athyrium vidalii, Vidal's Lady Fern, is an East Asian member of the lady fern alliance native to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and eastern China. Named in honour of the nineteenth-century Spanish...

Athyrium vidalii (Vidal's Lady Fern)

Athyrium vidalii, Vidal's Lady Fern, is an East Asian member of the lady fern alliance native to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and eastern China. Named in honour of the nineteenth-century Spanish...

Athyrium otophorum (Eared Lady Fern)

Athyrium otophorum, the Eared Lady Fern, is a deciduous Asian fern distinguished by its striking burgundy-red stems and distinctive ear-like lobes (auricles) at the base of each pinnule. Growing 45-60...

Athyrium otophorum (Eared Lady Fern)

Athyrium otophorum, the Eared Lady Fern, is a deciduous Asian fern distinguished by its striking burgundy-red stems and distinctive ear-like lobes (auricles) at the base of each pinnule. Growing 45-60...

Athyrium niponicum (Japanese Painted Fern)

Athyrium niponicum is the most colourful hardy fern in cultivation, producing metallic silver-grey fronds with deep burgundy-purple rachises from a compact, clump-forming crown 30–45 cm tall. Hardy in USDA zones...

Athyrium niponicum (Japanese Painted Fern)

Athyrium niponicum is the most colourful hardy fern in cultivation, producing metallic silver-grey fronds with deep burgundy-purple rachises from a compact, clump-forming crown 30–45 cm tall. Hardy in USDA zones...

Adiantum venustum (Himalayan Maidenhair Fern, E...

Adiantum venustum, the Himalayan Maidenhair Fern, is a cold-hardy montane species native to the Himalayas from Afghanistan to China (1,000–3,000 m elevation). Unlike tropical maidenhairs, it survives to −20 °C...

Adiantum venustum (Himalayan Maidenhair Fern, E...

Adiantum venustum, the Himalayan Maidenhair Fern, is a cold-hardy montane species native to the Himalayas from Afghanistan to China (1,000–3,000 m elevation). Unlike tropical maidenhairs, it survives to −20 °C...

Athyrium brevifrons (Short-fronded Lady Fern)

Athyrium brevifrons, the Short-fronded Lady Fern, is a compact deciduous fern native to the montane forests of Japan, Korea, and eastern China. Fronds of 20 to 40 centimetres are bipinnate...

Athyrium brevifrons (Short-fronded Lady Fern)

Athyrium brevifrons, the Short-fronded Lady Fern, is a compact deciduous fern native to the montane forests of Japan, Korea, and eastern China. Fronds of 20 to 40 centimetres are bipinnate...

Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Narrow Lad...

Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum is the varietal-rank treatment of the cool-climate northeastern American race of the circumboreal lady fern complex, biologically equivalent to Athyrium angustum under species-rank treatment. Deciduous bipinnate-pinnatifid...

Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Narrow Lad...

Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum is the varietal-rank treatment of the cool-climate northeastern American race of the circumboreal lady fern complex, biologically equivalent to Athyrium angustum under species-rank treatment. Deciduous bipinnate-pinnatifid...