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    Woodwardia virginica

    Virginia Chain Fern

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    Item #: 4891

    Zones: 4a to 9b, at least

    Dormancy:

    Height: 18" tall

    Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade

    Origin: United States

    Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)


    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.