PlantsShade & Groundcovers
Lady Fern
Athyrium filix-femina
Chicago-region native. Suited to zone 6a.
A lacy fern for ordinary shade
EasyShade & Groundcovers
- Light
- Part shade–shade
- Moisture
- Medium–moist
- Mature size
- 2–3 ft
- Spacing
- 2 ft
- Bloom or harvest
- Fiddleheads in spring
- How it spreads
- Clump
- What to buy
- A pot.
- When to plant
- Apr–May or Sep
In the design
The fern when ostrich fern is too much plant. East or north. It wants moisture the first summer, then it is fine.
