Black-stem Spleenwort
Asplenium resiliens
Black-stem spleenwort is a dainty evergreen fern that tucks into limestone crevices and walls, with dark wiry stems and ladder-like fronds.
- Family
- Aspleniaceae
- Type
- fern
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.3–0.8 ft
- Spacing
- 0.3–0.5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- alkaline, neutral
- Landscape uses
- groundcover, container, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IL, KS, KY, MO, NC, NM, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA