Fields of ferns
On a hot humid sticky day, doesn't this look cool and welcoming? I think they're sensitive cinnamon ferns, [thanks Fred for the correction] growing in the woods at Miles Wildlife Sanctuary in Sharon. If this is indeed what they are, the CT Botanical Association Website adds:
This is Connecticut's largest fern. Its fiddleheads are food for ruffed grouse, and hummingbirds sometimes use the fuzz on young fronds to line their nests.
• Family: Osmundaceae• Habitat: swamps, streambanks, shores
• Height: 2-5 feet
• Location of spores: separate fertile fronds are cinnamon-colored, narrow and erect
• Stipe (leaf stalk): round and slightly grooved; at first covered with cinnamon-colored hairs, later smooth and green
• Growth pattern: symmetric clump
• Persistence: deciduous
posted by Jenny at 12:34 PM
9 Comments:
I had to do a google because I'd never heard of a Sensitive Fern; I thought maybe it closed up when touched or something but it turns out its because it's so sensitive to frost. A lovely photo...looks very inviting as though you could lie down and sleep on them.
Rx
do you know that certain species of ferns are edible and really delicious.
i tried them when i went holidaying in borneo. lovely!
of course, it does not look like these ferns that you show ;-)
Jenny, I have a similar photo that I was going to use for my banner, alto I used an airplane instead. I think I'll post mine tomorrow as a companion post to yours. Edible says KEROPOK MAN? I may try it. If they taste as good as they look, it might be a tasty delight!
Your DH says: Not sensitive ferns (Onoclea sensibilis). Sensitive ferns have undivided leaves. My first guess would be cinnamon fern, but I'm not a fern expert....
Beautiful image. Mesmeric. Thanks
Clearly they survived the frost. A great shade of green. (I'm into a blue period chez moi).
I do love ferns... I posted a pic with ferns yesterday,
but want to get deep into the ferny woods and really take a lot of snaps.
they are such peaceful and fragile looking plants.
ps
I ate some ferns, sauteed, last month. my human companion brought them from some market.
Amazing sea of ferns. I didn't know they grow this far north.
Nice photo.
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