Steven Daniel

Young frond (mid-May) showing hairs on rachis, taken in St. Lawrence Co. NY

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The hairs show up clearly on emerging fronds of hay scented fern.

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Hay scented ferns can cover large areas, especially if deer eat other herbaceous plants.

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Note spore cones at tips of shoots of this club moss in St. Lawrence Co. NY/

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Notice the burr-like seed head in this sweet fern patch. Warren Co. NY

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Low shrubby cinquefoil in flower in Warren Co. NY (Sweet fern leaves also visible.)

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Leaf and fruit of shrubby cinquefoil, taken in upstate NY.

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Fragile fern can get much longer than this,shown from Jefferson Co. NY

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The "bulblets" of the bulblet bladder fern, taken in St. Lawrence Co. NY

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Notice the bud to the right of the open flowers. St. Lawrence Co. NY

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