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Woodwardia fimbriata
Also called Giant chain fern
Giant chainfern is a large evergreen fern native to western North America, grown in shaded, moist gardens. Give it shade, steady moisture and humus-rich soil, and it will develop fronds up to 1 to 3 m long.
Woodwardia fimbriata, known by the common name giant chain fern, is an evergreen perennial fern species in the family Blechnaceae, in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, in the class Polypodiopsida. It is native to western North America from British Columbia through California, including the Sierra Nevada, into Baja California.
It grows in coniferous forests and other moist wooded habitat.
Woodwardia fimbriata can be located along the western coast of North America from British Columbia in Canada to Baja California as well as the state of Nevada.
Woodwardia prolifera · Rooting chainfern · Jewelled Chain Fern · Chainfern
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Woodwardia fimbriata 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.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
