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, ...

Back in the Middle Ages, and well into the 16th century, there was considerable confusion regarding the way plants worked, along with just about everything else. Plants — that is, all plants — were ...

Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting to be catapulted away. Once a spore lands, it grows into a tiny plant, from which fern ...

Examples of severely malformed and teratologic spores from Schandelah-1, and other locations (right top: Stenlille core, Denmark; left bottom: Pechgraben, Southern Germany; right bottom: Prees-2 core, ...

Ferns bless us with classic Southern settings but doing so isn’t always easy. Random winds pick up fern spores and scatter them, their destiny determined by fate. Many end up lost at sea. Some fall on ...

Transform your fern collection into a lush oasis for free. Deer-resistant and shade-loving, ferns add a whimsical allure to ...

Plant Systematics and Evolution, Vol. 306, No. 2 (April 2020), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) Hybridization is a ubiquitous force in plant evolution. In ferns, hybrids are often easily recognized by their ...

It’s a fern, of course. This one is quite common in the Southeast, stretching north into the Ohio River Valley and New England and west to eastern Texas. Southern grape-fern, Sceptridium biternatum, ...

Gadshill: "We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible." Chamberlain: “Now, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible. — Shakespeare ...

Those pesky, dim-lit, dark corners of your garden needn't remain barren — you can fill them with perennial ferns for an instant dose of calm and tranquility! Being forest dwellers, ferns are naturally ...

Those rows of orange cluster under a fern leaf are spores waiting to be catapulted away. Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting ...