There are few forms of the botanical world as readily identifiable as fern leaves. These often large, lacy fronds lend themselves nicely to watercolor paintings and tricep tattoos alike. Thoreau said ...

As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment. As flowering plants ...

In a new study published in the journal iScience, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC) in Spain present a new record-holder for the largest ...

Ferns represent a globally distributed lineage of monilophytes encompassing roughly 12 000 species, second only to flowering plants in vascular plant diversity. Their evolutionary history stretches ...

I covered the evolution of ferns, their place in the general evolution of terrestrial plants and the curious nature of their reproductive cycle. To put it plainly, things got away from me and I didn’t ...

Looking very “unfernlike,” the American Climbing Fern has individual leaves that look something like a hand. About the size of a quarter, they can be easy to overlook. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON ...