Newly-named Black Fern Hannah King was so emotional when she called her parents to tell them the news that they thought there was an emergency. "My parents weren't home, so I called them in tears ...

The understory of our forests is graced with lots of ferns in a variety of shapes and sizes. Ferns (along with trees and wildflowers) are classified as vascular plants, meaning that they all have ...

Bird’s nest fern (Asplenium nidus), from the Polypodiaceae family, is a plant straight from the rainforests of tropical Asia ...