Photo: Aquatic Ferns (category), Water Spangles, Salvinia rotunifolia is a fern that grows in water. These ferns are small, floating aquatics with creeping stems, branched, bearing hairs on leaf surface papillae, but no true roots.
Google Images, Fern Forest Ferns of South Florida (Typed List)
This group of images from a Fern Forest typed list (no detailed notes) begins on this page. Ferns on Fern Forest Nature Center fact sheets (with photos) are not shown here.
Google Images, Fern Forest Ferns of South Florida (Typed List)
This group of images from a Fern Forest typed list (no detailed notes) begins on this page. Ferns on Fern Forest Nature Center fact sheets (with photos) are not shown here.
Photo: Google image, Aquatic Ferns, Mosquito Fern, Azolla Carolintana (From the Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants Web site, University of Florida). Mosquito fern is a small, free-floating fern, less than 1/2 inch across. Newer leaves are gray green, but can turn rusty-red, especially in winter. It spreads vegetatively, and can rapidly form large, floating mats. It occurs throughout Florida in still, or sluggish waters. The leaves are tiny and lacy-looking and often overlapping.
Photo: Aquatic Ferns (category), Cinnamon Fern, Osmunda cinnamomea (From the Vocabulary.com Web site) Fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring, later surrounded by green fronds, the early uncurling fronds are edible.
Photo: Aquatic Ferns (category), Old World Climbing Fern, Lygodium microphyllum (From the Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants Web site, University of Florida). Note: The UF Web page has an excellent video. This climbing fern is a non-native species that is considered invasive and legally prohibited.
Photo: Aquatic Ferns (category), Giant Brake Fern, Pteris triportita (From the Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants Web site, University of Florida). The Giant Brake fern is not native to Florida. This exotic escaped from cultivation and is occasionally found growing in swamps and hammocks.
Photo: Aquatic Ferns (category), Giant Brake Fern, Pteris triportita
Photo: Aquatic Ferns (category), Giant Brake Fern, Pteris triportita
Photo: Ephiphytic Ferns (category), Golden Serpent Fern, Phlebodium aureum, (Wikipedia) This fern is a rhizomatous fern, with the creeping rhizome 8-15 mm (rarely 30 mm) in diameter, densely covered in the golden-brown scales that give the species its name. The fronds are large and pinnatifid (deeply lobed) from 30-130 cm. long and 10-50 cm. broad, with up to 35 pinnae, they vary in color from bright green to glaucous green and have undulated margins.
Photo: Ephiphytic Ferns (category), Hand Fern, Ophioderma palmatum, (Wikipedia and DiversityofLife.or Web site, DOL.org) Ophioderma palmatum also known as the hand fern, is a terrestrial, fern-like plant. The genus Ophioderma is a small group of non-flowering vascular plants. The hand fern is an epiphyte, growing in old leaf bases of the Cabbage palmetto (Sabal palm). It is closely related to, and sometimes treated as a subgenus of the genus Ophioglossum. It has long been known as Cheiroglossa palmata, but recent genetic analysis has determined that it should be treated in the genus Ophioderma.
This plant is found worldwide, but in the United States, it is restricted to the far southeast, primarily Florida. It has become rare in Florida due to overcollecting and extensive drainage of natural wetlands from development and water diversion projects. It is reported to not survive cultivation.
This plant is found worldwide, but in the United States, it is restricted to the far southeast, primarily Florida. It has become rare in Florida due to overcollecting and extensive drainage of natural wetlands from development and water diversion projects. It is reported to not survive cultivation.
Photo(s): Fern Ally (category), Whisk Fern, Psilotum nudum (From the Union County College Web site, NJ) This Whisk fern represents the most primitive vascular plant on Earth today. It has no roots, leaves, flowers, fruits or seeds.
Photo(s): Terrestrial Ferns (category), Chain Fern, Woodwardia virginica (From the Connecticut Botanical Society Web site) To identify this fern, look for a distinctive sori (right). If the sori are not present, look for dark shiny stripes (leaf stalks).
Photo: Terrestrial Ferns (category), Chain Fern, Woodwardia virginica (From the Connecticut Botanical Society Web site) The undersides of the sterile fronds (those without sori) have an interesting (and rather attractive) pattern of veins. This is shown below in close-up.
Photo: Terrestrial Ferns (category), Chain Fern, Woodwardia virginica (From the Connecticut Botanical Society Web site)
Photo: Terrestrial Ferns (category), Swamp Fern, Blechnum serrulatim
Photo: Terrestrial Ferns (category), Swamp Fern, Blechnum serrulatum (From the Plantsystematics.org Web site) Linear sori, one on each side of the pinna rachis, are characteristic of Blechnum.
Photo: Terrestrial Ferns (category), Bird's Nest Fern, Asplenium serratum. (Wikipedia) The Bird's Nest Fern is a state-listed endangered species.
Photo: Terrestrial Ferns (category), Giant Sword Fern Nephrolepis biserrata.
Photo: Terrestrial Ferns (category), Giant Sword Fern Nephrolepis biserrata (See: Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants Web page)
Photo: Terrestrial Ferns (category), Tuber Sword Fern Nephrolepis cordifolia (From the Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plant Web site) The sword fern is a plant that was introduced most likely for its ornamental attributes. In 23 counties from the Gainsville area south, specimens of sword fern have been found and documented. Now considered a Category I invasive species, sword fern has made its presence known and continues to spread across Floirida.
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