Cliff Fern Woodsia obtusa
Other Common Name(s):
- Phonetic Spelling
- WOOD-see-ah ob-TOO-sah
- Description
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Woodsia obtusa
Easy to grow; slow creeping, compact rhizome with tan scales and dark streaks.
VIDEO Created by NC State Extension's Homegrown series featuring Mark Weathington, Director of JC Raulston Arboretum.
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Attributes:
- Genus:
- Woodsia
- Species:
- obtusa
- Family:
- Woodsiaceae
- Life Cycle:
- Perennial
- Particularly Resistant To (Insects/Diseases/Other Problems):
- Heavy shade, Deer
- Dimensions:
- Height: 0 ft. 5 in. - 1 ft. 6 in.
- Width: 1 ft. 0 in. - 1 ft. 0 in.
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Whole Plant Traits:
- Plant Type:
- Fern
- Herbaceous Perennial
- Native Plant
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Habit/Form:
- Ascending
- Creeping
- Erect
- Spreading
- Growth Rate:
- Slow
- Maintenance:
- Low
- Texture:
- Fine
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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 pH:
- Acid (<6.0)
- Available Space To Plant:
- Less than 12 inches
- 12 inches-3 feet
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone:
- 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b
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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:
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Leaf Color:
- Gray/Silver
- Green
- Leaf Type:
- Compound (Pinnately , Bipinnately, Palmately)
- Fronds
- Leaf Arrangement:
- Opposite
- Other/more complex
- Leaf Shape:
- Oblanceolate
- Oblong
- Leaf Margin:
- Denticulate
- Hairs Present:
- Yes
- Leaf Description:
- Lacy, narrowly oblong, gray-green fronds have many glands and hairs on both surfaces; bipinnate-pinnatifid erect fronds; nearly opposite pinna are widely spaced; bluntly lobed pinnules; rounded sori surrounded by ragged indusia are borne on tips of veins of pinnules; stipe is dark orange at base and yellow above; produces new fronds throughout growing season.
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Stem:
- Stem Color:
- Gold/Yellow
- Green
- Orange
- Stem Is Aromatic:
- No
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Landscape:
- Landscape Location:
- Naturalized Area
- Small Space
- Woodland
- Landscape Theme:
- Native Garden
- Shade Garden
- Design Feature:
- Border
- Resistance To Challenges:
- Deer
- Heavy Shade
