These plants do not produce seeds. The underside of the lace-leaf woodfern (Dryopteris intermedia) is covered with small brown dots containing the microscopic spores. Spores are often dispersed by ...
Grant, who gardens in Zone 9a, suggests Snowy wood rush (Luzula nivea), a small-ish grass, Robb’s spurge (Euphorbia robbiae), a perennial for tough, dry shade, and Alpine wood fern (Dryopteris ...