For more texture, try the golden-scaled male fern (Dryopteris affinis, from Europe and Asia), which has striking golden-brown scales on its fiddleheads, then forms a massive clump of leathery ...

The phloroglucinol compositions of 18 species (including subspecies) belonging to Dryopteris Adanson sect. Fibrillosae Ching have been investigated on a world-wide basis, and the taxonomic ...

Steffen: Ones with great architectural, upright vase shapes like the robust Dryopteris affinis, most commonly the cultivar ‘Cristata’, which is easy to grow and does well in our climate.

Shorter ferns could include Dryopteris affinis 'Crispa Gracilis Congesta’ and D. filix-mas 'Cristata Martindale’.