Marginal Wood-fern
Dryopteris marginalis
It grows wild in 35 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 2.2 ft to 3 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Fronds
- Evergreen, no flowers
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Fern
At its grown size
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 3 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 2 kinds of birds
Grows well with
White Wood-aster
Heartleaf Aster
False Solomon's-seal
Wild Blue Phlox
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Creeping Phlox
Christmas Fern
New York Fern
Facts from the Quercus record for Dryopteris marginalis.