Fern Finder: A Guide to Native Ferns of Central and Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada

by Barbara Hallowell, Anne C. Hallowell (Illustrator)

Overview

Easily Identify the Ferns You Find!

Enjoy learning to identify ferns with this guide from authors Anne Hallowell and Barbara Hallowell. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of ferns in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike or a walk in the woods.

Features:

• Provides information to help you identify native ferns that grow in the United States Midwest and Northeast, as well as eastern Canada
• Uses a dichotomous key, like other plant guides in the Nature Study Guides Finders series
• Leads the user step-by-step through a series of choices, culminating in the identification of the species
• Includes a large number of illustrations with line drawings

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780912550244
Publisher:	Wilderness Press
Publication date:	01/01/1981
Series:	Nature Study Guides
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	376,334
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 4.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	10 Years

About the Author

Anne C. Hallowell and Barbara Hallowell; Illustrated by Anne C. Hallowell

Read an Excerpt

If pinnae are irregular in shape, and stipe and lower rachis are dark, it is Scott's SpleenwortAsplenium ebonies

If pinnae are similar in shape, and stipe is dark only at the base, it is Lobed SpleenwortA. pinnatifidum

4-8 in

10-20cm

10-20 in

25.5-51cm

Table of Contents

Species List

• Blade leaf frond
• Walking Fern
• Climbing Fern
• Water Clover
• Mosquito Fern
• Moonwort
• Little Grape Fern
• Lance-leaved Grape Fern
• Daisy-leaved Grape Fern
• Sensitive Fern
• Netted Chain Fern
• Resurrection Fern
• Common Polypody
• Scott’s Spleenwort
• Lobed Spleenwort
• Northern Holly Fern
• Christmas Fern
• Glade Fern
• Green Spleenwort
• Maidenhair Spleenwort
• Bradley’s Spleenwort
• Ebony Spleenwort
• Black-stemmed Spleenwort
• Northern Maidenhair
• Southern Maidenhair
• Powdery Cloak Fern
• Alabama Lip Fern
• Purple Cliffbrake
• Smooth Cliffbrake
• Woolly Lip Fern
• Slender Lip Fern
• Hairy Lip Fern
• Blunt-lobed Grape Fern
• Dissected Grape Fern
• Leathery Grape Fern
• Sparse-lobed Grape Fern
• Daisy-leaved Grape Fern
• Rattlesnake Fern
• Lance-leaved Grape Fern
• Bracken
• Mountain Fragile Fern
• Limestone Oak Fern
• Oak Fern
• Broad Beech Fern
• Narrow Beech Fern
• Bulblet Fern
• Wall Rue
• Mountain Spleenwort
• Braun’s Holly Fern
• Fragrant Wood Fern
• New York Fern
• Ostrich Fern
• Cinnamon Fern
• Interrupted Fern
• Appalachian Filmy Fern
• Virginia Chain Fern
• Bradley’s Spleenwort
• Lady Fern
• Silvery Glade Fern
• Parsley Fern
• Slender Cliffbrake
• Rusty Woodsia
• Smooth Woodsia
• Alpine Woodsia
• Rocky Mountain Woodsia
• Blunt-lobed Woodsia
• Oregon Woodsia
• Hay-scented Fern
• Massachusetts Fern
• Marsh Fern
• Fragile Fern
• Marginal Wood Fern
• Alpine Lady Fern
• Boott’s Wood Fern
• Evergreen Wood Fern
• Spinulose Wood Fern
• Spreading Wood Fern
• Goldie’s Wood Fern
• Log Fern
• Male Fern
• Crested Wood Fern
• Clinton’s Wood Fern