General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Fern
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9a
Plant Height: 12 to 18 inches (30-45cm)
Plant Spread: 12 to 18 inches (30-45cm)
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Semi-evergreen
Miscellaneous: Endangered: in Tennessee
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM

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Common names
  • Hart's Tongue Fern
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Asplenium scolopendrium
  • Synonym: Phyllitis scolopendrium

Photo Gallery
Location: Bide A Wee cottage garden, near Morpeth, Northumberland
Date: 2010-05-29
Location: Granite Falls, WA
Date: 2017-08-19
Hart's Tongue Fern with Brunnera "Jack Frost"

Date: 2016-09-14 
spores
Photo by glengarry23
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2007-05-14
unfolding..
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2022-04-30
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2010-05-20
unfolding fronds..
Location: Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada
Date: June, 2005
Location: The Ardennes, Belgium
Date: 2016-11-05
In its natural habitat.
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2011-04-13
Frond buds still covered in wooly stuff..

photo credit: H. Zell
Location: Botanical Garden Cologne (Germany)
Date: 2017-08-14
Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-05-24
In spring.

Date: 2012-12-09
Location: The Ardennes, Belgium
Date: 2016-11-05
Location: Kalama, Wa.
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Location: Washington
Date: 2015-11-11
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2007-07-17
Spore capsules on backside of mature leaf..
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2005-09-02
Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-06-14
spore capsules on backside of the mature frond
Location: Photo taken in my garden after a snow fall.
Date: 2012-02-09
Photo by PiaLouiseSourvi

photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher

photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher
Location: Mountain forest near Big Sochi 
Date: 2009-04-20
The picture was made by me on the cloudy day at the end of April.

Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
grows excellent in full shade!

Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Date: 2016-09-14

Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-02-04
Sef-set in my shady garden.
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Comments:
  • Posted by Bonehead (Planet Earth - Zone 8b) on Sep 29, 2013 10:59 AM concerning plant:
    Cut back ratty or brown fronds in spring. The new foliage will fill in quickly. I think this plants looks best in the fall when it is lush and thick.
  • Posted by yurikashtanov (St.Petersburg, or Sochi, or North Smolensk reg., Russia; Los Frailes, Ecuador - Zone 10a) on Jan 12, 2013 12:05 PM concerning plant:
    The fern is common in Euxine forests.

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