Dryopteris can be deciduous, semi-evergreen or evergreen ferns, with stout, erect or decumbent rhizomes and shuttlecock-like rosettes of lance-shaped to ovate, pinnately divided fronds
'Crispa Whiteside' is a partially evergreen fern to 60cm tall, with triangular-ovate, tripinnate fronds, the segments toothed and attractively crisped