Product Specifications

• Product name: Dryopteris x australis Fern - Wood, Dixie, #1
• Native status: Native
• Height: 4-5 ft
• Width: 2-3 ft
• Can be maintained to desired size: No
• Light: Part to full shade
• Soil moisture: Medium moisture
• Drought tolerant: No
• Erosion control: Yes
• Hardiness zone: 5 to 9
• Deer resistance: High
• Evergreen/Deciduous: Deciduous
• Groundcover: Yes
• Fragrant: No
• Fruit: No
• Attracts birds: No
• Attractive flowers: No
• Larval host plant: No
• Attracts pollinators: No
• Fall foliage: No

The Dixie Wood Fern is characterized as a clumping fern with short creeping rhizomes, and a bipinnate, glossy, lanceolate, upright arching frond. It is a naturally-occuring hybrid between D. celsa and D. ludoviciana.