As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

Identifying ferns is a different process than, say, identifying wildflowers or trees. They don't display flowers, showy fruits or bark patterns. What they do display are seemingly endless arrays of ...

Taking a forest walk in July is a unique experience. The woods is shady and a few degrees cooler than the heat that we feel in the open during this month. Thanks to the thick arboreal canopy, the ...

Sporophylls of the homosporous fern Ceratopteris richardii have naked pinna meristems that allow surface growth at the pinna apex to be observed nondestructively over time. Sequential scanning ...

Many gardeners today are interested in native plants because their blossoms provide food for pollinators. However, nonblooming plants are also essential for native habitats. Plants such as ferns are ...

We observed mapped individuals of three species of Botrychium Sw. at a single site in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta for six years. Our study showed that the interspecific sterile hybrid, B.