Asplenium scolopendrium
Hart's Tongue Fern
$15.99
- Main interest:
- low maintenance, pest free, year round green foliage
- Exposure:
- partial to full shade
- Soil humidity:
- moist soil
- Growth type:
- clumping
- Fragrance:
- Non-fragrant
- Flowering period:
- non-flowering
- Foliage:
- evergreen
- USDA Hardiness:
- zone 5a: -29 °C (-20 °F) View Zone Map
- Mature height & width:
- height: 1.5 ft (0.45 m) width: 1.5 ft (0.45 m)
- Use:
- border, ground cover, rock gardens, container, naturalizing
The Hart’s Tongue Fern is a low maintenance addition to your part shade, or shade garden. Producing an erect-arching clump of tongue-shaped, leather green fronds this is an unusual fern. The fronds are undivided giving the plant a unique appearance. On the leaf’s underside spores darken with age and reveal a herring-bone format. Growing upright this fern is great as a ‘thriller’ in the ‘spiller-thriller-filler’ container combination. Enjoy this bright green fern all year round, including the winter.
- Main interest:
- low maintenance, pest free, year round green foliage
- Exposure:
- partial to full shade
- Soil humidity:
- moist soil
- Growth type:
- clumping
- Fragrance:
- Non-fragrant
- Flowering period:
- non-flowering
- Foliage:
- evergreen
- USDA Hardiness:
- zone 5a: -29 °C (-20 °F) View Zone Map
- Mature height & width:
- height: 1.5 ft (0.45 m) width: 1.5 ft (0.45 m)
- Use:
- border, ground cover, rock gardens, container, naturalizing
The Hart’s Tongue Fern is a low maintenance addition to your part shade, or shade garden. Producing an erect-arching clump of tongue-shaped, leather green fronds this is an unusual fern. The fronds are undivided giving the plant a unique appearance. On the leaf’s underside spores darken with age and reveal a herring-bone format. Growing upright this fern is great as a ‘thriller’ in the ‘spiller-thriller-filler’ container combination. Enjoy this bright green fern all year round, including the winter.
Synonym(s): Phyllitis scolopendrium, Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum
Also known as: Buttonhole, Burnt Weed, Christ's Hair, Horse Tongue
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