
How to grow cinnamon fern
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
When to plant cinnamon fern
Cinnamon fern is a moisture-loving fern whose fertile, cinnamon-brown spore fronds appear in early spring as the fiddleheads emerge. Set out new plants in spring; it is slow to establish but long-lived and may go dormant if the soil dries out.
Cinnamon Fern is timed by season rather than your frost dates, so the planting calendar does not generate ZIP-specific dates for it. Check the cited sources below to fine-tune for your area.
Growing conditions
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Spacing
- 36 to 72 in apart
- Sun
- Partial sun
- Soil pH
- 4.5 to 6
Sources
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