Meet Dr. Eric Schuettpelz, a botanist who studies ferns and fern biodiversity at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. During this webcast, which originally aired on April 19, 2018, ...
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that the fern Hymenasplenium murakami-hatanakae can become independent gametophytes, i.e., live for long periods without a ...
It’s a fern, of course. This one is quite common in the Southeast, stretching north into the Ohio River Valley and New England and west to eastern Texas. Southern grape-fern, Sceptridium biternatum, ...
On a beautiful Saturday morning in early June, I volunteered at Wilson’s Farm in Brighton Township for an environmental field study to learn the language of ferns. Though I often noticed copious ...
FOR THOSE OF US who do not identify as pterdomaniacs — that’s fern fanatic in laymen’s terms — this vast family of plants can be confounding. Unlike most plants familiar to gardeners, ferns do not ...