HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - For this edition of Flower Friday, we are switching it up with a fern. Which fern you ask...well, the Christmas fern! The Christmas fern is a wonderful ...

Although they dominated these early landscapes, there are now only about 10,000 living fern species world-wide, well fewer than the number of flowering plants which we see around us.

The Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) is one of over 350 species of North American native ferns. Indigenous to eastern North America, Christmas ferns are found in natural areas ...

Lawless County Park in Cassopolis, Michigan, called Christmas fern because it is green on Christmas. A fun thing to look for if you find this green leathery fern is the fronds.

Ferns are a plant group that has existed for nearly 400 million years. So, it's no surprise that there are now an estimated 10,500 species living around the globe. Ferns owe their millennia-long ...

This is Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides), named for its evergreen habit and the shape of its leaflets. Each leathery, lance-shaped leaflet has a lobe at its base, creating a leaf shape my ...

Tromping through our woods in December in search of a Christmas tree, I often notice an evergreen fern, one of the few green plants on the forest floor this time of year, other than young conifers. An ...