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Take the FFL Pledge!Asplenium nidus: Bird's Nest Fern
Keighly Graves, Wendy Wilber, Tom Wichman, Claire Lewis, Gail Hansen, andRyan Klein
Release Date: 4/26/2026
Water Resources
Abstract
Bird’s nest fern is an epiphytic perennial with bright green leaves in a rosulate leaf arrangement, giving the appearance of a “bird’s nest.” It is an evergreen plant that is well suited as a specimen plant, used in a container or as a houseplant, or in the landscape as a groundcover or edging.
About this Publication
This document is FPS54, one of a series of the Department of Environmental Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date October 1999. Revised December 2025. Visit the Ask IFAS website at https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/ for the currently supported version of this publication.



