Polypodium Care. Polypody ferns are low growing plants, seldom reaching over a foot (0.3 m) in height with a similar spread. As with most outdoor fern care, they don't need much attention, as long ...

The cinnamon fern can reach a height of 6 feet and a spread of up to 3 feet in ideal conditions. This means that you want to ...

They diversified into many of the modern fern families and species during the “great fern radiation” of the Cretaceous period, from 145 to 66 million years ago. Like the clubmosses (see Plant ...

Florida has the widest variety of ferns in the continental U.S. (only Hawaii and Puerto Rico have more), and 123 of these are native to the state. Gardening with ferns is relatively easy given the ...

Nicole Cammorata, a plant enthusiast who is also Mashable's Executive Commerce Editor, found that her bird's nest fern looked much more alert when she stopped babying it.

A new study identified the largest known genome of any organism in a fern found in Pacific islands. Its cells have more than 50 times the DNA as human cells have.

This weird fern is the first known plant that turns its dead leaves into new roots. The tree fern Cyathea rojasiana gets thrifty to survive in Panama’s Quebrada Chorro forest.

Few native, woodland ground covers rival the ancient, elegant and edible ostrich fern, or Matteuccia pensylvanica. Happening upon a mass of sun-dappled, dancing and rustling giant ostrich fern fro… ...

It is actually not a fern, but a related plant called selaginella. The Latin name of cedar fern is Selaginella pulcherrima. Although this plant is evergreen, the fronds tend to look ratty by spring.

A new study identified the largest known genome of any organism in a fern found in Pacific islands. Its cells have more than 50 times the DNA as human cells have.

According to Pellicer, of 12,000 or so documented plant genomes, all but a half dozen are at least an order of magnitude smaller than that of the fork fern, named Tmesipteris oblanceolata, that ...