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Dryopteris intermedia  grows in quality mesic forests. It is similar to Spinulose Wood Fern, but Florist's Fern has the innermost pinnu...

Dryopteris spinulosa  is common in northern Indiana woodlands. It sometimes grows at the base of a tree where water is funneled down along ...

Dryopteris marginalis is a frequent native in the eastern half of North America . Especially common and abundant in the Appalachians , it i...

Yesterday I posted this as a plant quiz: "Photographed in a beech-maple forest in St. Joe County, Indiana on January 7, 2012. Can you i...

Many interesting ferns can be found growing on rocky outcrops, but one of my favorite common ferns has to be Dryopteris marginalis (Margina...

I recently posted the following photograph from Round Lake in Starke County, Indiana as a plant quiz and asked for identification of as many...

This is what Lake Michigan looks like when cold air picks it up and drops it on evergreens (if you don’t live near the U.S. Great Lakes, Goo...

Does this young forest look mundane? Uninteresting? It’s quite the opposite! At a fraction of an acre, it occupies a little corner in a long...