Region: Japan, China. Habitat: prefers partial to deep shade; prefers soil clay, loam, silt; occasionally wet.
Ecology: resistant to insects, deer.
Use: ornamental, easy to grow.

BotanyFern; perennial; ± 50 cm tall, 50 cm wide; slowly spreads by runners.
Root: erect rhizome; vigorous. Leaves: deciduous; green; rough; compound, pinnately, dipinnately, palmately; lanceolate; margins crenate; no hairs; winged rachis; narrow, erect, hairy, pinnatifid blade tapers at both ends.