Cinnamon fern is a regal, upright, vase-shaped fern with lustrous green fronds. Showy, spore-bearing, stiff, fertile fronds appear in early spring and turn quickly bright cinnamon-brown, hence its common name. Ferns provide seasonal cover and hiding places for ground frequenting birds.  This fern is significant in the American landscape and easily identifiable among other ferns and shade perennials.  Native fern found in the wet woods near ponds, streams and ditches.

• Height: 2’-3’ x Spread: 2’-3’
• Full shade
• Zone 3-9

Christmas fern stays green all winter; the fronds were formerly used for Christmas decorations. It is common and easy to identify from the shape of the fronds. Fiddleheads for this fern emerge through dark, shiny evergreen mature fronds in April.  It is found natively in rich open woods in clumps.

• Part shade to full shade
• Moist soil
• Height 3 feet x Spread 3 feet
• Season of interest – Four seasons of evergreen foliage
• Evergreen and Native
• Zone 5-9