<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="085A2787-B512-4472-A3C5-2A5ACCB17281" src="cid:155A6045-D20A-4083-8E79-5170991A6472" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I asked when this thread started <u class="">which</u> ferns kept Microstegium at bay, & got no answer. I have now seen this at Fraser Preserve: NY fern patch making a gap in the stilt grass. Other ferns I’ve seen at Fraser seem to ignore stilt grass & go their merry way regardless, but they do not keep it out, not Christmas fern, ebony spleenwort, lady fern, sensitive fern, silvery spleenwort, netted chain fern, broad beech fern, maidenhair, Dryopteris carthusiana, D cristata, D intermedia, D marginalis, royal fern, cinnamon fern, interrupted fern, and certainly not rattlesnake, grape, or adder’s tongue. Common polypody only grows on rocks where stilt grass can’t. Only other possibility (at Fraser) of a fern keeping out stilt grass not yet checked out is hayscented.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Margaret Chatham<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 14, 2021, at 7:56 AM, Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" class="">ialm@erols.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Could the ferns be related in any way to the dense infiltration of Biopolaris microstegii like plaques that completely wiped out a very large patch of Japanese Stiltgrass about a decade ago?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Rod Simmons <<a href="mailto:Rod.Simmons@alexandriava.gov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Rod.Simmons@alexandriava.gov</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, September 14, 2021 12:11 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">ialm@erols.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:INVASIVES@listserv.umd.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">INVASIVES@listserv.umd.edu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:maipc@lists.maipc.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">maipc@lists.maipc.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [EXTERNAL][MAIPC] Microstegium and ferns<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Good work, Marc! At the forested Gold Mine Tract above Great Falls Park, MD, Brachyelytrum erectum and shade have severely constricted Microstegium.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hay-scented Fern, to your point, has done the same at Catoctin Park.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Elymus villosus has seemingly set back Microstegium at Chapman State Park where we mechanically removed Ligustrum sp. years ago.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">On Sep 13, 2021, at 7:09 PM, Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">ialm@erols.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Today I was doing routine removal of non-native invasive species in my local park in Charles County Maryland, where a large patch of Japanese stilt grass died about a decade ago between flower and seed. (typical rust plaques)This has not happened again in the following years. Unfortunately stilt grass has become too difficult in the 200 acre park because it has moved in so much from outside the park. But what was interesting today is the location of the original patch is now dominated by large fern patches, several times more than stilt grass, It is on the top and edge slopes of a mountain like area, which by the way has a wonderful large patch of Mountain Laurel about 150 feet from the fern and stilt grass area. This may be of interest for research on biological control of Japanese stilt grass. 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