| Scientific Name: | Dryopteris cycadina |
| Common Name: | shaggy shield fern |
| Family Name: | Dryopteridaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Fern |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Leathery, Bipinnate, Lanceolate, Cleft (parted), Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Vase-shaped fern with short creeping rhizomes 45-70(-90)cm tall and as wide; fronds stiff, leathery, upright, once pinnate, with 20-30 pairs of narrow lance-shaped pinnae; stipe and rachis with black hair-like scales. | |