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Polystichum acrostichoides - Christmas Fern

Polystichum acrostichoides

Fern - Christmas

Christmas Fern has green, shiny foliage.  Young fiddleheads in spring are silvery and scaled.  Polystichum acrostichoides is evergreen and looks like a Boston Fern. It will not spread or naturalize, but in time the clumps will increase in size.  Songbirds will use parts and scale-like hairs in nest construction. Christmas Fern hugs the ground in winter.

PRN Preferred:  We love the hardiness and the neat evergreen foliage of this fern.

Height

18 Inches

Spread

24 Inches

USDA Hardiness Zone

3
Current Availability
Qty Avail Description Comments Future Crop Future Crop Ready Date
35 Polystichum acrostichoides #1 (NATIVE-Christmas Fern) 1,280 mid July
Characteristics & Attributes
Attributes
Deer Resistant
Erosion Control
Evergreen
Full Shade
Groundcover
Native
Native - Straight Species
Winter Containers
Soil Conditions
Average
Exposure
Full Shade
Partial Shade/Shade Tolerant
Special Recognition
Perennial Plant of the Year
PHS Gold Medal Plant
Pleasant Run Nursery Preferred Selection
Tolerance
Dry Shade Tolerant
Foliage Color
Green
Companion Plants to Polystichum acrostichoides
Indian Rhubarb/Umbrella Plant Darmera peltata
Indian Rhubarb/Umbrella Plant
Bleeding Heart Dicentra x 'Luxuriant'
Bleeding Heart
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