A big fern with fronds up to 5 feet long, this will grow in wet or dry shade. When spores are produced, they interrupt the arrangement of leaflets with smaller spore-producing leaflets that are ...

Cinnamon ferns uncoil in North Berwick, Maine. Fern fronds also differ from the leaves of flowering plants in the way they expand from a bud (a,k,a, vernation).

Flowering ferns instead have two types of fronds: sterile and fertile fronds. The green sterile fronds don't produce spores, they're for photosynthesis.

It’s just a plant with large fronds that look like elk antlers. Typically seen indoors, the staghorn fern only does well outside in the warmer climates of Australia, Southeast Asia, Africa ...

Fern glossary • Fronds: large leaves with multiple leaflets; fertile fronds produce spores; infertile fronds do not. • Leaflets: the small leaf-like structures on the fronds ...

Boston ferns make gorgeous houseplants with their long, flowing fronds, but hanging them in the wrong spot could be ...

Most modern ferns belong to a set of species called the leptosporangiates, which emerged at least 250 million years ago, says Kathleen M. Pryer of Duke University in Durham, N.C. Ferns dominated ...

Ferns have found a steadfast friend in Jim Orband. He believes their soothing looks and easy personalities deserve all the respect and use they can get in any kind of garden – big or small ...

Holly leaf fern (Cyrtomium falcatum) exhibits dense, shrub-like growth to a height and width of three feet. It tolerates more exposure to both direct sun and winter cold than most ferns.

Its irregular branching rhizome forms a large mass over time. • A. ‘Ghost’ has the shuttlecock habit of a lady fern, while its silvery-green fronds are akin to Japanese painted fern.

Once you've cut your fern into several sections, it's time to prepare the soil. If you're not planting your ferns in the same area, consider putting down a mix of leaf mold, compost, and sand.

If you want a fern-like plant for sunnier areas, try asparagus fern, shown here in foreground with the silvery foliage of a dusty miller plant and the red blooms of a large-leaf begonia.