Scientific Name
Woodsia obtusa

Common Name
Blunt lobed wood fern; Cliff fern


Zones:  4-10
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Height: 5 to 18"
Deciduous/Evergreen: Deciduous
Fronds: Lacy, narrowly oblong, gray green fronds have many glands and hairs on both surfaces; bipinnate-pinnatifid erect fronds; nearly opposite pinna are widely spaced; bluntly lobed pinnules; rounded sori surrounded by ragged indusia are borne on tips of veins of pinnules; stipe is dark orange at base and yellow above; produces new fronds through out growing season
Comments: Easy to grow; slow creeping, compact rhizome with tan scales and dark streaks
Cultivars: N/A
 

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