Woodwardia virginica (Virginia Chain Fern)

Part Sun to Light ShadeZone: 4-9, at least 18" tall Origin: USA

This wonderful US native, from ME to TX, is strangely missing from gardens despite being a great, easy-to-grow garden specimen. W. virginica is usually found in bogs...often in very acidic, mucky soils, but we have found it quite adaptable in our dry sand. W. virginica has a long, creeping, deciduous rhizome that is topped during the growing season with vertical black stipes and upright 18" green fronds that often emerge coppery red. W. virginica is a nice spreader, but nothing like the weedy bracken fern. Our 5-year-old patches are 4' wide. Pot size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)