Scientific Name: Asparagus Fern No doubt that your garden is more beautiful with the addition of the asparagus fern. It is an evergreen, vining perennial that is not a fern at all, but a member of the lily family. It is a very popular House Plant. This resilient plant has fine twining stems and develops a vine-like in habit when mature. Its fine, fluffy foliage is ferny and soft in texture. It develops small, single, white nodding flowers in summer at the joint between stem and leaf. These mature into berry-like fruits that turn from orange-red to purple-black.