Dryopteris australis Crete no relation to 'Roseanne Roseannadanna'

no relation to 'Roseanne Roseannadanna'

creamy white

introduced in 1981 by North Carolina's own Van Sellers

the clusters of red bell-shaped flowers (pleianthum = pleios "many" and anthemon "a flower") are held on very hairy pedicels (flower stalks) between the two lobed leaves (hexagonal when young)

Dryopteris australis Crete no relation to 'Roseanne Roseannadanna'Dryopteris x australis is a very rare East Coast American native a naturally occurring hybrid between Dryopteris x celsa and Dryopteris ludoviciana. The growth habit is dramatically upright with large, coarse, dark green, semi evergreen fronds reminiscent of a giant Christmas fern plugged into an electrical outlet! This is a very structural, deer resistant fern for the moist woodland garden, eventually making a clump 4'+ tall x 2' wide. Although