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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

If you find it strange that such a humble plant has such a gigantic genome, scientists do, too. The enigma emerged in the 1950s, when biologists discovered that the double helix of DNA encodes genes.

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.

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… ...

The plant at 2000 Fern Valley Rd. employs 3,900 hourly workers, and Felker said the automaker would compensate employees approximately 75% of their gross pay during the week of Jan. 11 to Jan. 17 ...

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 ...