Ferns and Fern Allies
Green, the color of growth or surgent life enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. … Hal Borland (1900-1978)
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Golden Leather Fern
Acrostichum aureum
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Golden Leather Fern
Acrostichum aureum
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Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
This photo is looking skyward from underneath a maidenhair fern that was growing on a limestone wall along a creek. -
Single-sorus Spleenwort
Asplenium monanthes
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Morzenti's Spleenwort Fern
Asplenium x heteroresiliens
Morzenti's Spleenwort Fern is a cross between A. heterochronum and A. resiliens. Notice the black stipe or stem, a characteristic of several spleenworts. -
Mosquito Fern
Azolla filiculoides
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Southern Grape Fern
Botrychium biternatum
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Winter Grape Fern
Botrychium lunarioides
The sporangia are the "grapes" of the Grape Fern. -
Winter Grape Fern
Botrychium lunarioides
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Fern Fiddlehead
This is the classic spiral of the fern fiddlehead as a new frond unfurls.
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Ferns in the Sunset
This was taken in the early evening when the sun was low in the sky.
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Foxtail Clubmoss
Lycopodiella alopecuroides
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Adder's Tongue Fern
Ophioglossum sp.
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Cinnamon Fern
Osmunda cinnamomea
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Golden Polypody
Phlebodium aureum
This epiphytic fern often grows on the bootjacks of Cabbage Palms. It is also know as Rabbit's Foot Fern because of its fuzzy or furry rhizomes. -
Resurrection Fern
Pleopeltis polypodioides var. michauxiana
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Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
One way to identify this Christmas Fern is to look for the "stocking" that is hanging from the stipe or stalk of the fern frond. -
Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
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Cretan Brake Fern
Pteris cretica
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Sand Spike-moss
Selaginella arenicola