Plant Growing Guides

Acid-loving ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Osmunda)

Acid-loving Perennials (Ferns)

Polypodiophyta (various genera)

Northern Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum pedatum

Archangel

Lamium album subsp. album

Asarum

Asarum spp.

Canadian wild ginger

Asarum canadense

Asarum Wild Ginger

Asarum canadense

Baneberry

Actaea rubra

Bishop's Weed

Aegopodium podagraria

Bishop's Weed Argenteum

Aegopodium podagraria 'Argenteum'

Bishop's Weed Variegatum

Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum'

Black Cohosh

Actaea racemosa

Blue Cohosh

Caulophyllum thalictroides

Bracken Fern

Pteridium aquilinum

Broad Leaf Plantain

Plantago major

Bugle

Ajuga reptans

Calypogeia fissa

Calypogeia fissa

Cardamine

Cardamine species

Wavy Bittercress

Cardamine flexuosa

Conocephalum conicum

Conocephalum conicum

Cool-growing ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Asplenium)

Creeping Charlie

Glechoma hederacea

Dead Nettle

Lamium album

Drought-tolerant native ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Asplenium)

False Hellebore

Veratrum viride

Figwort

Scrophularia nodosa

Fragile Fern

Cystopteris fragilis

Fragrant Fern

Dryopteris fragrans

Garlic Mustard

Alliaria petiolata

Goldenseal

Hydrastis canadensis

Golden Tiara Hosta

Hosta 'Golden Tiara'

Goldie's Wood Fern

Dryopteris goldiana

Goldthread

Coptis chinensis

Goutweed Variegatum

Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum'

Great Solomon's Seal

Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum

Green Moss

Various species (e.g., Hypnum cupressiforme, Bryum capillare, Dicranum scoparium)

Green Shamrock

Oxalis acetosella

Hay-scented Fern

Dennstaedtia punctilobula

Lamiastrum

Lamiastrum galeobdolon

Golden Deadnettle

Lamium aureum

Lamium (Dead Nettle)

Lamium spp.

Liverwort

Marchantia polymorpha

Low-growing bog ferns

Dryopteris, Polystichum, Osmunda species (varies by type)

Club Moss

Lycopodium clavatum

Spotted Dead-Nettle

Lamium maculatum

Marginal Shield Fern

Dryopteris marginalis

Ostrich Fern

Matteuccia struthiopteris

Mayapple

Podophyllum peltatum