General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Fern
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial Shade to Full Shade
Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Plant Height: 20 inches (50 cm)
Plant Spread: 20 inches (50 cm)
Suitable Locations: Alpine Gardening
Uses: Will Naturalize
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Stolons and runners
Offsets
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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Common names
  • Common Polypody
  • Rock Polypody
  • Polypody
  • Adders Fern
  • Wall Fern

Photo Gallery
Location: Kalama, Wa.
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Location: Botanical Garden Cologne (Germany)
Location: in my garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-06-01
Location: Botanical Garden Cologne (Germany)
Location: Botanical Garden Cologne (Germany)
Date: 2017-08-22
Location: Harrogate Flower Show, Yorkshire, England
Date: 2019-04-27
Polypodium vulgare
Location: Kalama, Wa.
Growing on a tree
  • Uploaded by Joy

photo credit: H. Zell
Location: my garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-06-01
spore capsules

photo credit: H. Zell
Location: KALAMA WA
  • Uploaded by Joy

Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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