| Scientific Name: | Onoclea sensibilis |
| Common Name: | sensitive fern |
| Family Name: | Onocleaceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Fern |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Spring interest, Waterside planting |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown, Black, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Fronds bright green, long-stalked, triangular-lanceolate, 30-90cm long x 20-30cm wide, deeply divided nearly to rachis forming broad lobes with way margins, thin and papery (very prone to wilting when exposed to frost or drought or "sensitive"); separate erect spore bearing fronds in centre of plant, 20-50cm long x 2-5cm wide, sori bead-like and in two rows, green and then brown, persistent. | |