An introduction to backyard ferns ... As is the case with the leaves of flowering plants, the fronds of some fern species are composed of a single blade, while other species have their blades divided into smaller sections, and sometimes even those sections can be divided, and divided again.
www.backyardnature.net/ferns.htm www.backyardnature.net/ferns.htm
fern_species (PDF File)
Fern Species; Family Name Genus species subspecies Common Name Non-Native; Aspleniaceae Asplenium platyneuron Ebony Spleenwort; Aspleniaceae Polystichum acrostichoides Christmas Fern; Aspleniaceae Phegopteris hexagonoptera Broad or southern beech-fern;
www.thewilds.org/what/species/wilds_ecology_fern_specie... www.thewilds.org/what/species/wilds_ecology_fern_species.pdf
Northwestern Ontario Forest: Common Ferns And Fern-Ally Species ... Athyrium filix-femina; - Lady Fern; ... Botrychium virginianum; - Virginia Grape Fern; "Rattlesnake Fern";
www.borealforest.org/ferns.htm www.borealforest.org/ferns.htm
Lists all the species of ferns and fern-allies of the world. ... This page is the portal to web-pages listing all the species of fern-allies and ferns of the world.
homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/fern/ homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/fern/
The American Fern Society ... The American Fern Society Spore Exchange maintains a collection of fresh spores from over 800 different species of ferns . The spores ("seeds of the ferns") are donated by AFS members.
amerfernsoc.org/ amerfernsoc.org/
Parts of the fern - and some names for them ... Why do ferns grow in some places and not others, and why do some species thrive where others don't?
www.home.aone.net.au/byzantium/ferns/about.html www.home.aone.net.au/byzantium/ferns/about.html
; Asplenium ruta-muraria ; A very hardy small fern with clumped rhizomes. A. ruta-muraria is characterized by irregularly bipinnate fronds and mostly fan-shaped pinnules. The species is nativ to North America, Europe and Asia.
www.farngarten.de/e_farne1/index1.html
An amateur naturalist identifies a fern scientists think has thrived unnoticed in UK for up to 5,000 years. ... Common in southern Europe, the fern is thought to have thrived unnoticed in the UK for up to 5,000 years, mistaken for another widespread British species.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3284309.stm
Platycerium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Platycerium is a genus of ~ 18 fern species in the Polypod family, Polypodiaceae . Ferns in this genus are widely known as Staghorn or Elkhorn ferns due to their uniquely-shaped fronds. This genu...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platycerium
Nature 184, 798 - 800 (12 September 1959); doi:10.1038/184798a ... Rockefeller Institute, New York; ... Eames, A. J. , "Morphology of Vascular Plants. Lower Groups" (McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1936).
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v184/n4689/abs/184798a0.h... www.nature.com/nature/journal/v184/n4689/abs/184798a0.html
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