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 ...

All plants have seeds, right? People in Shakespearian England thought so; wondering why nobody could ever find fern seeds. Surely, ferns must have seeds, therefore they must be invisible — and if you ...

Ferns are kinda epic. They're among the oldest plants on Earth, having planted their roots in its soil hundreds of thousands of years before dinosaurs evolved to walk among them. They're also ...

Nearly 400 million years ago, a couple of hundred million years before flowering plants appeared on Earth, ferns and their allies climbed up out of the water and onto land to eventually dominate the ...

Ancient and very beautiful: a plant group that has always fascinated humans…the ferns. Fern-like plants began appearing in the fossil record nearly 400 million years ago, and for a long period, they ...

"Nature made ferns for pure leaves," wrote Henry David Thoreau. Given the right conditions, ferns will thrive and create the feeling of a woodland garden or glen in your back yard. Happiest in ...

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After 180 million years buried in volcanic rock in the southern tip of Sweden, a recently discovered fern fossil looks almost as good as new. The matchbox-sized fossil is among the best ever preserved ...

PARADISE, MI -- With 48,000 acres of wilderness there’s no shortage of plant discoveries in Tahquamenon Falls State Park in the Upper Peninsula. While navigating the 40 miles of hiking trails you’ll ...