New York Fern
Amauropelta noveboracensis
It grows wild in 39 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 1.5 ft to 2 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Fronds
- Die back in winter, no flowers
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; wants 6 in of soil
- Kind
- Fern
At its grown size
fall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 7 kinds of caterpillars
Grows well with
White Wood-aster
Heartleaf Aster
Wild Blue Phlox
Hairy Beard Tongue
Lyreleaf Sage
False Solomon's-seal
Pennsylvania Sedge
Creeping PhloxFacts from the Quercus record for Amauropelta noveboracensis.