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Polystichum acrostichoides

Polystichum acrostichoides - Christmas Fern

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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

Partial Shade/Shade Tolerant

Full Shade

Deer Resistant

Native

Groundcover

Pleasant Run Nursery Preferred Selection

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

Darmera peltata
Indian Rhubarb/Umbrella Plant

Carex texensis
Texas Sedge

Carex flaccosperma
Blue Wood Sedge

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