The habitats where male fern~(Dryopteris filix-mas) grows:

Altantic hazel wood
Atlantic oak wood
Beech wood
Bracken scrub
Brownfield
Caledonian forest
Damp fertile disturbed
Hedgerow scrub
Limestone pavement
Lowland dry oak and birch wood
Lowland mixed oak and ash wood
Mixed scrub
Montane dwarf shrub heath
Mountain ledge
Scree
Traditional orchard
Upland birch wood
Upland mixed ash wood
Wet woodland
Wood pasture