Shiny Bristle Fern
Arachniodes davalliaeformis
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-10b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Semi-Evergreen to Evergreen Perennial, depending on climate
Height at Maturity: 12-20″
Width at Maturity: 18-24″+
Spacing: 15-18″ for mass plantings
Spacing: 15-18″ for mass plantings
Growth Habit / Form: Arching Clump
Growth Rate: Moderate
Flower Color: None
Flower Size: NA
Flowering Period: NA
Flower Type: NA
Fragrant Flowers: NA
Foliage Color: Bright Green new fronds mature to Dark Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Full Shade or Part Shade, Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade – Avoid afternoon sun
Water Needs: Average
Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay soil to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sand (amend quick draining soils for moisture retention), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well-Drained to Wet
Soil pH: 5.0 – 7.0 (Slightly Acid to Slightly Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Moist Soil, Rabbit, Shade, Wet Soil
Description
One of those plants in the garden that folks just have to reach out and touch to make sure it’s real, the Shiny Bristle Fern is a little-known distinctive and beautiful perennial species that comes to us from the southern Japanese islands. It forms a slowly spreading clump of plastic-like, shiny dark green arching triangular fronds with black stems. New growth is lighter green. A long-lived hardy perennial that is evergreen in zones 9 and 10 or semi-evergreen in zones 7 and 8, the Shiny Bristle Fern provides excellent texture and shine in shady garden beds or pots, planters or other containers.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 12 to 20 inches tall and equally as wide, the Shiny Bristle Fern is ideal for use as an accent in small garden spaces or in groupings in garden beds or along paths and walkways. Excellent as a solo in small pots or as an accent combined with other shade-loving perennial plants in larger pots. Also nice in shady home foundation plantings and around garden ponds. A fine addition to fern gardens, rock gardens, woodland gardens and Asian theme gardens.
Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this fern variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
The Shiny Bristle Fern is easy to grow in moist but well-drained soils of average fertility in part shade to full shade. It prefers an acid to neutral soil ranging from 5.0 to 7.0 on the pH scale.
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to find advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water perennial ferns.
How To Plant Perennial Ferns
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How To Fertilize & Water Perennial Fern Plants
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