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I came across a fern in the woods....so can not rightly say its evergreen cause it grew in a dried creekbed down 7 feet of bank.I would guess its a southern shield/wood fern.does anyone here GROW one.

We have North American Wood Ferns here. Does it look anything like this? Do you have a photo?

yes.thats what it looked like.some moss like that too. are some curled up things in root area......know what they are called?I'd guess are more leaves.........

Is it a Maiden Hair Fern?
Sherry

njoynit,
We call that Southern wood fern over here in Mississippi. I have some on the north facing wall of my house and it is just beautiful every year. Mine is already starting to sprout now so I went ahead and cleared off all the dead fronds from last year. It does die back every winter and I leave the fronds to protect it during the cold weather. It's easily controlled by just mowing across the front where I don't want it to grow and the bed itself is nice and thick--real pretty from early spring till first good frost in the fall.