Now that spring is here, bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) has been popping up everywhere. Over the winter, the plant turned brown and all but disappeared, but now it’s re-emerging from an extensive ...

Ferns are not a very popular food item for the animal kingdom. Compared to the herbivorous insects on flowering plants and conifers, relatively few insects eat ferns. One estimate is there is about ...

Bracken is a large, coarse fern found on all continents except Antarctica. It grows in our woods here in Nagano, with a mature plant reaching 50 centimeters or so. Bracken has large, triangular fronds ...

Take a walk in the Catalina Mountains this month and you’ll likely see plants similar to those you might have seen if you could have wandered through a mountain forest 100 million years ago. They are ...

This press release is available in German. They dominated the earth for 200 million years and numerous different species can still be found all over the world: mosses, horsetails and ferns.

Bracken Ferns are rising on the higher mountains of San Diego County, their bright green, unfolding fronds (called “fiddleheads”) pushing up through the russet remains of last year’s growth. By late ...

Q: I am looking to do a mass planting of ferns. The least expensive way to go is to buy bare root ferns online. I’m looking at beech fern, autumn fern, cinnamon fern and bracken fern.Dave Green, ...