| Scientific Name: | Asplenium scolopendrium |
| Common Name: | Hart's tongue fern |
| Family Name: | Aspleniaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Fern |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Alpine, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Rock garden, Small garden/space, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Leathery, Glabrous, Lustrous, Linear, Oblanceolate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Fronds not divided into pinnae, most blades 30-45cm long x 2-5cm wide, margins mostly entire and undulate (except for cultivars with lobed or lacerate margins which may be wider); sori in centipede-like rows that radiate from the "midrib". | |