Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A plant called Hartford fern was rare in Pennsylvania. Until Mike Gondell looked more closely at ...

SAUK COUNTY, Wis (CBS 58) -- A Wisconsin family found a rare fern that hasn't been documented in the area for more than 90 years. The Wisconsin Department of Resources (DNR) says that maidenhair ...

PUTNAM COUNTY, Ind. — A rare plant has been discovered in west central Indiana. The weft fern, a state-endangered species that grows on rocks, caves and sheltered crevices, was found during a plant ...

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 ...

Researchers in China have reported a remarkable discovery: a fern that naturally contains rare earth minerals, an occurrence considered unique worldwide. This breakthrough could pave the way for an ...

A “breakthrough” discovery about the fern species Blechnum orientale could help to ease the rare earth element (REE) crisis and pave the way for a “green” extraction process for the metals. While the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Recent botanical exploration efforts in the rugged Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) have increased the known flora of the archipelago by an ...

A botanist traversing a harrowing knife-edge ridge on the South Atlantic's Ascension Island has stumbled upon a little fern long believed extinct. The last time anyone saw one of the delicate little ...

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 ...

Around 390,000 plant species are known, worldwide. Of those, less than 3%, or 10,500 species, are ferns. Peak abundance occurs in tropical regions worldwide, and diversity dwindles northward. Only ...