| Scientific Name: | Blechnum spicant |
| Common Name: | deer fern |
| Family Name: | Blechnaceae |
| Origin: | B.C. west of Cascades, Europe, U.S. - northwest |
| 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, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Filler, Forestry, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Native planting, Perennial border, Small garden/space, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Leathery, Lustrous, Bipinnate, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Fronds are deeply-lobed, once pinnate, rachis grooved, green turning dark brown: vegetative fronds are vase-shaped then becoming horizontal and evergreen, most lanceolate to elliptic, 20-40cm long x 3-9cm wide; pinnae mostly 1-4cm long x 5-7mm wide at base; fertile fronds are upright with much narrower linear pinnae, 4-6cm long x 2-3mm wide, lower surface with two thick rows of sori, and wither after spores are released. | |