Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
It grows wild in 68 of Arkansas’s 75 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 2 ft to 3 ft tall, 2 ft wide
- Fronds
- Evergreen, no flowers
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Fern
At its grown size
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 5 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 2 kinds of birds
Grows well with
Heartleaf Aster
False Solomon's-seal
Wild Blue Phlox
New York Fern
Large-flowered Bellwort
Great Blue Lobelia
Northern Maidenhair Fern
Tall ThimbleweedFacts from the Quercus record for Polystichum acrostichoides.