Cheilanthes alabamensis grows in shallow soils in or around rocks. In the garden, it is very adaptable. Prefers well-drained, gritty soil in shade or sun.
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Alabama Lipfern is a short to compact fern with, upright, lacily cut, olive-green fronds. It is clump-forming, sparsely hairy, semi-evergreen to deciduous fern. The fronds spring up in clusters; they do not unfold as fiddleheads like typical ferns