Like most tropical houseplants, the bird’s nest fern likes average indoor temperatures between 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

One of the simple pleasures in life is visiting preserved woodlands and forests where towering trees create quiet, shady, often damp environments. Not many plants can grow in the low ...

Another type of seedless vascular plant is ferns, also known as monilophytes. Many types of ferns have large leaves called fronds that slowly unfurl over time, but there are other kinds, too.

Ferns of all descriptions do well in bathroom areas – prop them along the side of your bathtub, on the sink, or on a plant stand on the floor. There are plenty of types of fern to choose from ...

But he says this type of fern appears to have come from two parents that you wouldn't expect to be a couple. One lives on rocky outcrops. The other is found on the floors of forests. They are two ...

To measure how ferns divided labor, the researchers sampled plants growing at different heights within 24 colonies. They counted two types of leaves on each plant.

A Vacuolar Arsenite Transporter Necessary for Arsenic Tolerance in the Arsenic Hyperaccumulating Fern Pteris vittata Is Missing in Flowering Plants. The Plant Cell , 2010; DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.069773 ...