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Sitobolium punctilobulum

Sitobolium punctilobulum
Photo: Jaknouse at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Sitobolium punctilobulum, the eastern hayscented fern, is a deciduous fern native to eastern North America that spreads through woodland and open woods. It grows best in cool, moist, acidic conditions with some shade.

Family
Dennstaedtiaceae (Dennstaedti family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist but never waterlogged.
Soil
Acidic, humus-rich, moist but well-drained woodland soil.
Temperature
Hardy in cold winters; protect from prolonged heat above about 30 °C.
How easy
Easy

About

Sitobolium punctilobulum, the eastern hayscented fern or hay-scented fern, is a species of fern native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Wisconsin and Arkansas, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Alabama; it is most abundant in the east of its range, with only scattered populations in the west.

It is a deciduous fern with fronds growing to 40–100 cm (rarely 130 cm) tall and 10–30 cm broad; the fronds are bipinnate, with pinnatifid pinnules about three times as long as broad. It occurs in damp or dry acidic soils in woods or open woods, from sea level up to 1,200 m altitude.

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Hay Scented Fern

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sitobolium punctilobulum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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