Please make sure JavaScript is enabled.

Before You Leave…

Download the GardenTags App today and join 100,000+ gardeners getting FREE plant identification, garden management and more!

no thanks

 
Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Asplenium scolopendrium 'Angustifolia'

 

Cut-Leaved Hart's Tongue Fern

The Narrow Hart's Tongue fern is a touch smaller than the species plant when mature but Asplenium scolopendrium 'Angustifolium' is a similarly tolerant. Plant it at the edge of a woodland area, under trees, or in a shady mixed border. Once established, it can tolerate dry soil.

Contributed by @crestiesneuk

 
plant Features
  • Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern likes partial shade to deep shade

    Partial shade to deep shade

  • Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern is full frost hardy: 5f (-15°c)

    Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)

  • Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Cut-Leaved Hart's Tongue Fern

Latin name

Asplenium scolopendrium 'Angustifolia'

type

Fern

family

Aspleniaceae

ph

7.0 - 8.5 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern likes partial shade to deep shade

    Partial shade to deep shade

  • Frost

    Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern is full frost hardy: 5f (-15°c)

    Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)

  • Soil

    Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

  • Water

    Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern likes very little water

    Very little water

Plant & bloom calendar

  •  
    Best time to plant

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Cut-Leaved Harts Tongue Fern is 0.45meters x 0.45meters 0.45 M 0.45 M

Asplenium scolopendrium 'Angustifolia'

The Narrow Hart's Tongue fern is a touch smaller than the species plant when mature but Asplenium scolopendrium 'Angustifolium' is a similarly tolerant. Plant it at the edge of a woodland area, under trees, or in a shady mixed border. Once established, it can tolerate dry soil.


Planting Outdoors

From Late Spring TO Late Spring

Plant container plants out in late spring digging compost into the ground first.

 

Propagation by seed

From Mid Summer TO Mid Summer

Seeds can be planted in mid-summer on damp compost. These can be removed from the underside of leaves.

 
Subscribe to GardenTags Premium to get personalised planting tasks and more for your entire plant collection
 
Gardeners who are growing this plant