More than 11,000 species of ferns cover our planet, but they're not all as feathery as the ones we see in our gardens and on forest footpaths would suggest. They range from the little clover-like ...

They don’t have showy flowers. They live in the darker recesses of our landscapes. Yet ferns are as beloved garden subjects as any other plant group. These ancient plants have been around for millions ...

Ferns are underrated and largely ignored by gardeners, but they shouldn't be. They can add much to a garden. I recently went to Walpole, New Hampshire, where I met with Michael Nerrie of Distant Hill ...

The understory of our forests is graced with lots of ferns in a variety of shapes and sizes. Ferns (along with trees and wildflowers) are classified as vascular plants, meaning that they all have ...

Throughout much of Florida's famed Everglades, an invasive, light-green vine called Old World climbing fern now cloaks the forest floor. Besides smothering shrubs and even small trees with its dense, ...

Research by Assistant Professor Jacob S. Suissa at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is revealing complexity in how ferns have evolved. Instead of the vascular structure inside fern stems ...

When leaves shift to the dorsal side of the fern’s stem, a smiley face pattern emerges in the stem’s vascular structure, as seen in this sample of a tobacco fern. Research by Assistant Professor Jacob ...