We grow and sell in these sizes: Starter Plug, Quart, 1-Gal, and Full Gal at various times of the year.

• Species Native to Missouri

• Common Name: royal fern

• Family: Osmundaceae

• Zone: 3 to 9

• Height: 2.00 to 3.00 feet Spread: 2.00 to 3.00 feet

• Part shade to full shade

• Water: Medium to wet

• Tolerate: Rabbit, Heavy Shade, Wet Soil

• Easily grown in medium to wet soils in part shade to full shade. Prefers moist, rich, humusy, acidic soils, but adapts to lesser conditions.

• Royal fern is a tall, deciduous, Missouri native fern which usually occurs on moist bluffs and ledges and along streams (sometimes growing in the water), primarily in the southeastern Ozark region of the State.
• Typically grows in clumps to 2-3' tall, but with constant moisture can reach 6' in height.
• Broad fronds have large, well-separated pinnae (leaflets) which give this fern an almost pea-family appearance. Fronds typically turn yellow to brown in autumn.
• Spores are located in brown, tassel-like, fertile clusters at the tips of the fronds, thus giving rise to the additional common name of flowering fern for this plant.
• Osmunda fiber used in the potting of orchids comes from the fibrous roots of these ferns.