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  • A group of evergreen ferns such as Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata', the hard fern Blechnum spicant and the hart's tongue fern Asplenium scolopendrium would look great through winter, and you could interplant these with primroses, so you get early spring flowers peeping out among them, like a little spring woodland floor scene.

    Stumped? Acers, plus shady window boxes Lia Leendertz 2010

  • Upper montane forest contains Azara serrata var. fernandeziana, Blechnum cycadifolium, Cuminia eriantha, Lactoris fernandeziana, and Rhaphithamnus venustus.

    Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests 2007

  • Cushion plants, liverworts, mosses, and the fern Blechnum discolor are all common in the understory.

    Rakiura Island temperate forests 2008

  • Dense high tussock grass dominates all the coastal lowlands and cliffs up to 200-500 m except in marshes where the pennywort Hydrocotyle capitata is common and on the drier western slopes which are dominated by tree fern Blechnum penna-marina heath.

    Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom 2008

  • The higher western half is dominated by bogfern Blechnum palmiforme between 0.5 – 1 m high.

    Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom 2008

  • Streamside herbaceous communities are typically lush with Pacific sword fern, deer fern (Blechnum spicant) and lady fern (Atherium filix-femina), and often include Oxalis (Oxalis oregona).

    South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon 2008

  • Blechnum loxense, Loricaria sp., and Achirocline sp.

    Central Andean wet puna 2007

  • Cystopteris fragilis and the Blechnum spicant, but I hear that the

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • Beyond the tussock grass, fern bush (Histiopteris incisa and Blechnum palmiforme) interspersed with an occasional "island tree" (Phylica arborea) occurs from about 300 m to 500 m elevation.

    Tristan Da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands 2007

  • Of ferns, after many a long hunt, I have only found the Cystopteris fragilis and the Blechnum spicant, but I hear that the Pteris aquilina is also found.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 1867

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