Athyrium filix-femina - Lady fern

Lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina) is a deciduous fern found throughout the north temperate zone, including Europe, to the mountains of India and tropical South America. Its young shoots are a bitter emergency food, not eaten regularly; the peeled, slow-baked rhizome is the more regularly eaten part.

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 3¹
• Hardiness zone 4¹
• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Full shade¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Moist soil¹

Outputs

• Human food¹
• Emergency food¹
• Medicinal use¹

Type

• Deciduous
• Fern

Functions

• Ground cover¹

Footnotes

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