This fern has a long creeping brown scaly rhizome and forms a clump with wiry dark leaf bases. It has divided dark green fronds that form a lanced-shape outline with small oblong leaflets and the fertile fronds appear during summer.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11 

Pellaea rotundifolia is naturally found from Australia to New Zealand growing in well drained, fertile moist humus rich sandy soils. It prefers a shaded to a semi-shaded protected position and is frost and drought tender.

The Button Fern, is an attractive small fern that is grown in shaded rock gardens crevices or in the understory of garden beds and around water features. It is also grown as a potted plant and in hanging baskets or as a houseplant in cool climates establishing in 1 to 2 years from division. ID 1305

Pellaea (pe-LIE-a) rotundifolia (ro-tund-i-FO-lee-a)

Pteridaceae (TE-ri-de-AY-see-ee)
(Adiantaceae)