Latin: Onoclea sensibilis
Common: Sensitive Fern
Zone: 3-8
Height: 1'-3'
Width: 1'
Exposure: Full/part shade
Notes: Deer resistant. Its sterile fronds, which wither early, are light to brown-mottled green and deeply cut into long lobes which almost reach the stem. Twice-pinnate fertile fronds appear in late summer and, though dead, remain upright through winter. Fiddleheads appear in the spring in shades of pale red.