Scientific Name: Pellaea rotundifolia
Common Name: button fern
Family Name: Pteridaceae
Origin: Australia / New Zealand
Hardiness Zone: Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Plant Type: Fern, Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Exposure:
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Leathery, Lustrous, Oblong, Orbicular, Serrate
Flowers:
Fruit: Sporangium (spores), Brown
Key ID Features:
Fronds, arching, up to 30cm tall and wide; pinnae about 16mm long x 12cm wide with crinkled margin, alternating on brownish-red rachis that has fine scales.