Fern reproduction is so mysterious it remained wrapped in mystery and magic until the middle of the 19th century. The reason is that – unlike all other plants – ferns don’t flower and therefore ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cinnamon fern is common all over eastern North America. You'll find it in shady swamps and wetlands along creeks and streams. Well ...

Did you give or receive flowers for St. Valentine’s Day? Though not a flower, your commercial floral arrangement may have included our local native sword fern. Ferns were considered magic for a long ...

Chris Haufler is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas. He researches plant biology, including the genetics of ferns. (AP PHOTO/Sara Shepherd/Lawrence ...

Others separate these functions to have one leaf type for photosynthesis and another for reproduction—a strategy called dimorphism. If the patterns of specialization seen broadly across plants were ...

It’s June, the rush of spring wildflowers is over, and now’s the time to look at ferns. There are more than 60 species in the state, some of them very rare, others in every county. They range in size ...