Athyrium filix-femina
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth. |
| Common name: | lady fern |
| Group: | fern |
| Family: | Dryopteridaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 24 - 36"' |
| Foliage: | lacy, twice cut fronds. Stipe is green or reddish above and dark at the base. Spores are under the frond |
| Habitat: | meadows, open thickets, moist woods |
| Range in New Jersey: | statewide, rarely in pine barrens and coast strip |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | Greek, Athyrium, "without shield", Latin, filix-femina "fern-feminine" Reproduces by spores and rhizomes. . A common landscape fern, that was very popular during the Victorian era. |