Sensitive Fern – Fertile Frond

Sensitive Fern – Fertile Frond

Sensitive Fern Onoclea sensibilis L. Sensitive fern has distinctively broad fronds that may spread by rhizomes. Infertile fronds are green  and die-back. Fertile fronds are shorter and bear spore producing bodies at the rolled edges. These fronds turn dark with age...

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Sensitive Fern – Sterile Frond

Sensitive Fern – Sterile Frond

Sensitive Fern Onoclea sensibilis L. Sensitive fern has distinctively broad fronds that may spread by rhizomes. Infertile fronds are green  and die-back. Fertile fronds are shorter and bear spore producing bodies at the rolled edges. These fronds turn dark with age...

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Cinnamon Fern – Fertile Fronds

Cinnamon Fern – Fertile Fronds

You can run but not hide You can run but not hide You can run but not hide Cinnamon Fern Osmunda cinnamomea L. Cinnamon fern is a tall (1.0 m or more), erect fern where cinnamon-brown spore producing stalks appear before the pale green, leafy and infertile fronds. The...

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Cinnamon Fern – Mature Plant

Cinnamon Fern – Mature Plant

Cinnamon Fern Osmunda cinnamomea L. Cinnamon fern is a tall (1.0 m or more), erect fern where cinnamon-brown spore producing stalks appear before the pale green, leafy and infertile fronds. The fertile stalks are much smaller, brown and densely woolly . The sterile...

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Cinnamon Fern – Young Fronds

Cinnamon Fern – Young Fronds

Cinnamon Fern Osmunda cinnamomea L. Cinnamon fern is a tall (1.0 m or more), erect fern where cinnamon-brown spore producing stalks appear before the pale green, leafy and infertile fronds. The fertile stalks are much smaller, brown and densely woolly . The sterile...

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Field Horsetail – Toothed Sheaths

Field Horsetail – Toothed Sheaths

Field Horsetail Equisetum arvense L. An upright perennial spreading by deep, dark underground rhizomes and with two distinct above ground shoots . The first to emerge is a grey-brown unbranched, hollow, jointed shoot with toothed sheaths and with a terminal...

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Field Horsetail – Root System

Field Horsetail – Root System

Field Horsetail Equisetum arvense L. An upright perennial spreading by deep, dark underground rhizomes and with two distinct above ground shoots . The first to emerge is a grey-brown unbranched, hollow, jointed shoot with toothed sheaths and with a terminal...

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Field Horsetail – Mature Plant

Field Horsetail – Mature Plant

Field Horsetail Equisetum arvense L. An upright perennial spreading by deep, dark underground rhizomes and with two distinct above ground shoots . The first to emerge is a grey-brown unbranched, hollow, jointed shoot with toothed sheaths and with a terminal...

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Field Horsetail – Shoots

Field Horsetail – Shoots

Field Horsetail Equisetum arvense L. An upright perennial spreading by deep, dark underground rhizomes and with two distinct above ground shoots . The first to emerge is a grey-brown unbranched, hollow, jointed shoot with toothed sheaths and with a terminal...

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Bracken Fern – Fronds

Bracken Fern – Fronds

Bracken Fern Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn var. latiusculum (Desv.) Underw. Reproduces by spores and dark, spreading underground rhizomes. Emerging fronds are hairy and fiddlehead-like  but unfold into compound fronds that are triangular in outline on long woody...

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Bracken Fern – Emerging Frond

Bracken Fern – Emerging Frond

Bracken Fern Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn var. latiusculum (Desv.) Underw. Reproduces by spores and dark, spreading underground rhizomes. Emerging fronds are hairy and fiddlehead-like  but unfold into compound fronds that are triangular in outline on long woody...

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Bracken Fern – Infestation

Bracken Fern – Infestation

Bracken Fern Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn var. latiusculum (Desv.) Underw. Reproduces by spores and dark, spreading underground rhizomes. Emerging fronds are hairy and fiddlehead-like  but unfold into compound fronds that are triangular in outline on long woody...

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