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Green fern with red stem
Wetlands southeastern michigan
Also known as bead fern. Bears it's spores on seperate fertile fronds that have clusters of small bead like spore containing capsules at the top of the seperate fertile fronds.
Spotted on Apr 25, 2010
Submitted on Apr 25, 2010
4 Comments
Great! I've gone ahead and added the Encyclopedia of Life page for Onoclea sensibilis as a reference link.
It is indeed a sensitive fern, I ended up finding it on the USDA plant profiles website right around the same time as your post. Thank you for the fast post and great ID.
you'll have to copy and paste the link
looks like it might be "sensitive fern" take a look here: http://homepage.mac.com/chpeirce/ferns/d...