Cinnamon Fern
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
It grows wild in 5 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 4 ft to 6 ft tall, 3 ft wide
- Fronds
- Die back in winter, no flowers
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; wants 12 in of soil
- Kind
- Fern
At its grown size
fall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 7 kinds of caterpillars
Grows well with
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Swamp Azalea
Fragrant Sumac
Calico Aster
Swamp Rosemallow
Brown-eyed Susan
New Jersey TeaFacts from the Quercus record for Osmundastrum cinnamomeum.