Crow's Nest Preserve
Flora and Fauna sighted at Natural Lands Trust's Crow's Nest Preserve, which is located outside of Elverson, PA in the Hopewell Big Woods. Learn more about Crow's Nest at ...more ↓
cinnamon fern
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, the cinnamon fern, is a species of eusporangiate fern in the family Osmundaceae. It is native to the Americas and eastern Asia, growing in swamps, bogs and moist woodlands.
Interrupted Fern
Osmunda claytoniana, the Interrupted Fern, is a fern native to Eastern Asia and eastern North America, in the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada.
Royal Fern
Osmunda regalis, the royal fern, is a species of deciduous fern, native to Europe, Africa and Asia, growing in woodland bogs and on the banks of streams. The species is sometimes known as flowering fern due to the appearance of its fertile fronds.
northern lady fern
Athyrium angustum is known as the northern lady fern, native to northeastern North America. It was long included in the superspecies Athyrium filix-femina, but is now largely recognized as a distinct species.
silvery glade fern
Deparia acrostichoides (silvery glade fern or silvery spleenwort) is a common fern in stream bottoms throughout much of the eastern United States. It often forms extensive colonies, growing from creeping crowns. The indusia turn silvery when the sori are close to ripening, hence the name.
Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern) is an evergreen fern native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota and south to Florida and eastern Texas. It is one of the most common ferns in eastern North America, being found in a wide variety of habitats and locations.
spinulose wood fern
Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P. Fuchs (syn. D. spinulosa (O.F. Muell.) O. Kuntze) is a species of fern native to damp forests throughout the Holarctic Kingdom. It is known as the Narrow buckler fern in the United Kingdom, and as the Spinulose wood fern in North America.
marginal wood fern
Dryopteris marginalis is known as the marginal shield fern or marginal wood fern. The marginal wood fern favors damp shady areas and is found throughout eastern North America. It favors moderately acid to circumneutral soils. It favors cooler areas, but is fairly drought-resistant once established. In the warmer parts of its range, it is most likely to be found on ...more ↓
hayscented fern
Dennstaedtia is a primarily tropical genus of ferns with some 59 species (some say 80 species). Its best-known member is probably the temperate North-American hay-scented fern (pictured in the taxobox), which forms extensive clonal ground-cover colonies on level surfaces in the Appalachian area.
New York fern
Thelypteris noveboracensis, or the New York fern, is a fern found throughout the eastern United States and Canada. It is distinctive by its pinnae tapering to the base of the frond, and by its forming extensive clonal colonies on ridgetops and mountain benches. The only other native species in this area with similarly tapering pinnae is the ostrich fern, Matteuccia ...more ↓
marsh fern
Thelypteris palustris, or the marsh fern, is a fern native to eastern North America and across Eurasia. It prefers to grow in marshy situations in full sun.
ebony spleenwort
Asplenium platyneuron (syn. Asplenium ebeneum), commonly known as ebony spleenwort or brownstem spleenwort, is a fern native to North America east of the Rocky Mountains and to South Africa. It takes its common name from its dark, reddish-brown, glossy stipe and rachis (stem and leaf axis), which bear a once-divided, pinnate leaf. The fertile fronds, which ...more ↓
sensitive fern
Onoclea sensibilis, the sensitive fern, also known as the bead fern, is a coarse-textured, medium to large-sized deciduous perennial fern. The name comes from the observation by early American settlers that it was very sensitive to frost, the fronds dying quickly when first touched by it. It is sometimes treated as the only species in Onoclea, but some ...more ↓
