| Scientific Name: | Polypodium glycyrrhiza |
| Common Name: | licorice fern |
| Family Name: | Polypodiaceae |
| Origin: | B.C. west of Cascades, U.S. - northwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Fern |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Epiphytic |
| Form: | Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Winter interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Fern-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Elliptic, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Yellow, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Small epiphytic fern that grows primarily on older, mossy big-leaf maples or trunks in mature forests but can be used as a ground cover; long creeping scaly rhizome; fronds 10-45(-60)cm long (including stipe) x 2-10(-15)cm wide, pinnae or pinnified lobes ~1cm wide, alternate along rachis, margins serrulate. | |