Hypolepis repens
Common Name(s):
Previously known as:
- Dicksonia aculeata
- Hypolepis aculeata
- Hypolepis delicatula
- Phonetic Spelling
- hih-poh-LEP-iss reh-PENS
- Description
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Easy to grow fern in the bracken fern family. It has long slender stems and creeping rhizomes; naturally occurs in well-drained moist, open woods with wet soil. A hard freeze will kill it to the ground but it will regrow in the spring in zone 8 and higher.
VIDEO Created by NC State Extension's Homegrown series featuring Mark Weathington, Director of JC Raulston Arboretum.
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Attributes:
- Genus:
- Hypolepis
- Species:
- repens
- Family:
- Dennstaedtiaceae
- Life Cycle:
- Perennial
- Country Or Region Of Origin:
- Tropical & Subtropical America, Florida
- Distribution:
- FL
- Particularly Resistant To (Insects/Diseases/Other Problems):
- Heavy shade, Deer
- Dimensions:
- Height: 3 ft. 0 in. - 8 ft. 0 in.
- Width: 3 ft. 0 in. - 5 ft. 0 in.
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Whole Plant Traits:
- Plant Type:
- Fern
- Ground Cover
- Habit/Form:
- Spreading
- Growth Rate:
- Rapid
- Maintenance:
- Low
- Appendage:
- Prickles
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Cultural Conditions:
- Light:
- Dappled Sunlight (Shade through upper canopy all day)
- Deep shade (Less than 2 hours to no direct sunlight)
- Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours)
- Soil Drainage:
- Good Drainage
- Occasionally Wet
- Available Space To Plant:
- 3 feet-6 feet
- 6-feet-12 feet
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone:
- 9b, 9a, 10b, 10a
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Fruit:
- Fruit Description:
- No fruits. This plants reproduces via spores.
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Flowers:
- Flower Description:
- No flowers.
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Leaves:
- Leaf Color:
- Green
- Leaf Type:
- Compound (Pinnately , Bipinnately, Palmately)
- Fronds
- Hairs Present:
- No
- Leaf Description:
- Large fronds; triangular with three or four divisions; blade has sparse hairs; stipe and rachis have small spines
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Stem:
- Stem Is Aromatic:
- No
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Landscape:
- Landscape Theme:
- Shade Garden
- Resistance To Challenges:
- Deer
- Heavy Shade
