Phegopteris connectilis, commonly known as long beech fern, northern beech fern, and narrow beech fern, is a species of fern native to forests of the Northern Hemisphere. This species is often epipetric as well as terrestrial.
Beech fern Care
Phegopteris connectilis



Phegopteris connectilis, commonly known as narrow beech fern, is a deciduous fern that typically grows to 8-18” tall with a slow outward spread over time by creeping rhizomes to 36” wide. It is a circumboreal species which is native to moist woodland areas and stream banks in northern parts of North America, Europe and Asia. In the U.S., it is native from Alaska to Newfoundland and Greenland south to Oregon, Iowa, western Illinois, Michigan and in the Appalachians to North Carolina. Narrow triangular blade is pinnate-pinnatifid to bipinnatifid extending to 14” long and 9” wide. Each leaflet is narrow triangular with a tapering tip. The bottom pair of leaflets is disjunct from the pair above it and is usually significantly downturned. Sori are located near the margins. No indusium (flap which usually covers the fern sori).
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How to Care for the Plant
Water
Soils should not be allowed to dry out.
Fertilizer
When planting, enrich your garden with generous amounts of compost or peat humus but avoid chemical fertilizers.
Sunlight
Choose a location in part shade to full shade. Best pale green color usually occurs in part shade.
Soil
Best grown in consistently moist, humusy, organically rich, acidic soils. Plant in a moist border or at the edge of ponds.
Temperature
This is a fern of cool climates. It will not adapt to the heat and humidity of the deep South. It can survive winter temperatures of down to -42.7°C (-45°F).
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