1000 + SENSITIVE FERN Onoclea Sensibilis aka Bead or Sympathy Fern Spores Seeds

Description:
Name: Sensitive Fern
Other common names: Bead Fern, Sympathy Fern
Scientific name: Onoclea Sensibilis
Color: Non-flowering, dark brown sporangia
Plant seeds: Outdoors after soil warms, best started indoors in containers
Bloom time: Non-flowering, sporangia from late summer to winter
Hardiness zone: 3 – 9 (2 – 10)
Plant height: 18 – 36 inches
Plant spacing: 18 inches
Light requirements: Part shade to woodland
Soil and water preferences: Average to moist
Quantity: 1000+ seeds (spores)

Details:
These spores are sent still in their pods (sporangia) to make sowing easier. You will receive 2-4 seed pod “balls” full of spores. Instructions are provided for crushing and sowing the spores over your planting medium. The Sensitive Fern, awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit, is native to Eastern North America and East Asia. It is very cold hardy despite its name and can tolerate clay, sandy, and limestone soils, as well as being rabbit resistant. Ideal for naturalizing or as a ground cover, the Sensitive Fern thrives in part to full shade and moist conditions, growing larger in wetter areas. It adapts well to various natural habitats including swamps, bogs, and woodland edges. The fern produces red fiddleheads in spring that mature into bright yellow-green fronds. It also features 12-inch long fertile fronds with bead-like sporangia. These ferns are suitable for fresh and dried floral arrangements.