Osmunda regalis Groundcover Shrubs often setting berries on a

often setting berries on a single plant

buttery yellow before dropping

a lineage once spread worldwide and now scattered mostly across the Southern Hemisphere

more pointed leaves

Osmunda regalis Groundcover Shrubs often setting berries on aOsmunda regalis, the royal fern, is a plant of stature and quiet nobility, at home where the woods remember water and time moves slowly. The genus Osmunda gives its name to an ancient family, the Osmundaceae, sometimes called the flowering ferns, with a fossil lineage that reaches back past the Jurassic; a royal fern in the garden is a living relic of a far older flora. The natural range runs from Nova Scotia to Florida in North America, and on