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Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Lady Fern (formerly A. filix-femina) typically grows in wooded ravines, moist woods, and floodplains from southern New England to the southern United States. This native is common throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region, except for northern/northeastern Pennsylvania where it is mostly absent. The delicate and graceful appearance of feathery fronds gives rise to its name.
Do you know that those chaffy scales on the unfurling fronds of this fern are called ramenta (singular: ramentum)?
Learn more about Athyrium asplenioides and about ramentum…