An easy fern to identify grows in fountain-like clumps and has glossy, dark green leaflets, or pinnae. This is Christmas fern ...

An easy fern to identify, it grows in fountain-like clumps and has glossy, dark green leaflets, or pinnae. This is Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides), named for its evergreen habit and the ...

Tromping through our woods in December in search of a Christmas tree, I often notice an evergreen fern, one of the few green ...