Dryopteris dilatata 'Recurvata'
Broad Woodfern
- Hardiness
- USDA Zones 4–8
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Seasonality
- Deciduous
This variety is no actively in production in our propagation house and may not return to our catalogue. We maintain this page purely for reference and archival purposes. If you would like to grow this plant, tell us. Your interest helps guide what we bring back.
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Dryopteris dilatata, the broad buckler fern, is a woodland fern of Europe and temperate Asia, carrying broadly triangular, three-times-divided fronds of dark, rich green above stalks clothed in dark-centered scales. The selection Dryopteris dilatata 'Recurvata' takes that handsome form and adds recurved leaf margins, so each frond reads with extra crinkle and depth, a fine textural plant for the shaded garden.
Give the broad buckler fern the cool, moist, humus-rich shade the whole genus prefers, and the semi-evergreen fronds will hold well into winter. Slow, clump-forming, and deer-resistant like the rest of the wood ferns, the plant sits comfortably among hostas and other woodland companions. Woodlanders grew 'Recurvata' as one of the many Dryopteris forms in a working fern collection.
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