Many of the oldest species are extinct, but others, like the interrupted fern (Osmunda claytoniana), a native to Eastern North America and East Asia, have racked up at least 180 million years of ...

The species is also known as the Hartford fern because it was the first plant to be protected by U.S. law in, of all places, Hartford, Conn. The fern had been collected as a traditional Christmas ...

Get to Know North America's Temperate Rainforests. ... blackberries, and salmonberries. It's here that you can experience lush ferns like Oregon oxalis, sword fern and lady fern.

“Eventually, I realized this wasn’t a fern at all, but some kind of early flowering plant,” he says. Its features wouldn’t be at all out of the ordinary in a plant growing outside today.

Water Fern is native to both North and South warm temperate and subtropical America and is spreading worldwide. Water Fern is a tiny floating fern that has been reported from several parts of Ireland.