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, Woodland margin
Exposure: Filtered shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Elliptic, Pinnately lobed
Flowers:
Fruit: Sporangium (spores), Yellow
Key ID Features:
Small epiphytic fern that grows primarily on older mossy big-leaf maples trunks in mature forests.