Shade Tolerant Plants (12)

Ferns:

1.Adiantum pedatum & A. venustum

Common name: maidenhair fern

Family name: Pteridaceae

Type: fern

Height: 0.7m

Hardness zone: 7

Foliage description: dark stems.  A. pedatum has palmated lobed stems. A. venustum has small, round leaves.

Cultivation: moist, shaded area

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiantum

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2.Blechum spicant

Common name: deer fern

Family name: Blechnaceae

Type: Fern

Height: 0.5-0.6m

Hardness zone: 5-8

Foliage Description:  two different types of fronds.

Cultivation: Part shade to full shade, medium water.

Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=242345&isprofile=0&

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3.Athytium filix-femina

Common name: lady fern

Family name: Woodsiaceae

Type: fern

Height: 0.7-1m

Hardness zone: 4-8

Foliage Description: 2 to 3-pinnate or pinnatifid, finely-divided, lanceolate, light green fronds which grow in a dense circular shuttlecock-like clump to 2-3′ tall. Each frond (leaf) has twenty to thirty pairs of elliptic non-opposite pinna (leaflets) with narrow pointed tips.

Cultivation: part shade to full shade, medium water

Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b630

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4.Dryopteris wallichiana

Common name: alpine wood fern

Family name: Dryopteridaceae

Type: deciduous~semi-evergreen

Height: 0.6m

Hardness zone:6-9

Foliage Description: dark brownish black hair-like scales that give a dramatic, almost prehistoric look to the fern

Cultivation: shade, moist

Reference: http://www.greatplantpicks.org/plantlists/view/544

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5.Polystichum munitum(N)

Common name: western swordfern

Family name: Dryopteridaceae

Type: Evergreen Fern

Height:0.5m

Hardness zone: 7. native

Foliage Description: 1-pinnately compound leaf

Cultivation: need moisture if grows in full sun

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Not ferns

1.Rodgersia

Common name: rodgersia

Family name: Saxifragaceae

Type: Herbaceous perennial

Height: 1m

Hardness zone: 5 to 7

Flower Description: June to August, creamy

Cultivation: moisture, full sun to part shade

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2.Astilboides tabularis

Common name: astilboides

Family name: Saxifragaceae

Type: Herbaceous perennial

Height and Width: 1m

Hardness zone: 5-7

Flower Description: white, similar to Rodgersia

Cultivation: medium water, part shade to full shade

Suitable Uses: woodland gardens,

Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b175

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3.Darmera peltata

Common name: umbrella plant

Family name: Saxifragaceae

Type: Herbaceous perennial

Height and Width: 0.5m-1m

Hardness zone: 5-7

Flower Description:

Cultivation: sun(moisture) shade, medium to wet

Suitable Uses: Rain garden

Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=v510

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4.Kirengeshoma palmata

Common name: yellow wax bells

Family name: Hydrangeaceae

Type: Herbaceous perennial

Height and Width: 1.5m-2m

Hardness zone: 5-8

Flower Description: waxy yellow

Cultivation: shade, tough. medium water

Suitable Uses: shaded border or woodland garden

Reference:

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=d670

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5. Thalictrum rochebruneanum

Common Name: meadow rue

Family: Ranunculaceae

Type: Herbaceous perennial

Height: 1.5m

Foliage and Flower Description: Lavender purple small flowers, 4 times pinnately compound leaves. fine texture

Cultivation: moisture, full sun to part shade.

Limitaition: Need surpport

 

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Hosta

6.  Hosta ‘Fortunei Albomarginata’

Common name: Variegated fortune Hosta

Family name:  Asparagaceae

Type: Herbaceous perennial

Height:  leaf: 0.3-0.5m, flower: 0.8m

Hardness zone: 3-8

Flower Description:  white

Cultivation: tough, moisture

 

7. Hosta sieboldiana

Common name:  seersucker hosta

Family name: Asparagaceae

Type: Herbaceous perennial

Height: 0.5m

Hardness zone: 4-9

Flower Description: white

Cultivation: tough, moisture

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