Dryopteris

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

Emerging fern croziers of Dixie wood fern, Dryopteris x australis also spread more thickly last fall will liven up the sea of spikes.

The Long And Short Of It-A Garden Tour « Fairegarden 2010

Over at the slightly protected east facing area next to the garage, between the pink flowering dogwood and the large Sambucus ‘Aurea’ the Autumn Ferns, Dryopteris erythrosora ‘Brilliance’, Hellebores old foliage intact and white blooming Gumpo Azaleas form an evergreen carpet of textural interest.

Bloom Day/Foliage Day Combo-February 2010 « Fairegarden 2010

Tall Dryopteris x australia, Dixie Wood Fern is beginning to reach above the masses of strappy foliage.

Follow The Foliage « Fairegarden 2009

At some point this tree will tower over the companions shown above, Dryopteris erythrosora ‘Brilliance’, Fothergilla to the right and Helleborus orientalis to the left.

Follow The Foliage « Fairegarden 2009

That is the tall Dixie Wood Fern, Dryopteris australis, growing on the daylily hill.

Daylilies Begin 2009 « Fairegarden 2009

The following endemic plants are endangered: two grasses, Sporobolus durus (possibly extinct) and Sporobolus caespitosus (few tufts remaining on Green Mountain at 730 m); Dryopteris ascensionis (a single plant was seen in 1976, occurs in moist ravines), Pteris adscensionis, and Anogramma ascensionis.

Ascension scrub and grasslands 2008

The understory consists of small-statured bamboo (Sinarundinaria spp.), ferns (Dryopteris spp.), and shade-tolerant plants like Arisaema spp.,

Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests 2008

Approximately 160 species of phanerogams, three club-mosses Lycopodium annotinum, Diphasiastrum alpinum and Huperzia selago, two horsetails Equisetum arvense and E. variegatum, and four ferns Cystopteris fragilis, Dryopteris fragrans, Woodsia ilvensis and Woodsia glabella occur in the nominated area.

Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

Slender subalpine bamboos (Fargesia spp.) and ferns (Dryopteris spp.) may flourish in the understory, with mosses and lichen on the leaves and culms of the bamboo and a deep, slowly decomposing litter layer rich with fungi.

Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests 2007