| 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, 60-90(-120)cm long, triangular with lobed pinnae; separate erect spore bearing fronds up to 30cm long with bead-like sori in two rows. | |