Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. There’s a new Boston fern in town and it goes by the name of Curly — or even better, Dragon Tail. Both names truly show what this fern ...

Reviewed by Debra LaGattuta Bird's nest ferns (Asplenium nidus) are epiphytes, meaning they typically grow on other plants and are not connected to the soil; this means that they derive most of their ...

Biologists have create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants, ferns. The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to ...

Cyathea rojasiana tree ferns seem to thrive in Panama’s Quebrada Chorro forest by turning dead leaves into roots that seek out nutrient-rich soil.

Kokedama can be crafted using a wide variety of plants, from curly ferns and resilient pothos to flowering plants, succulents, and even small trees.

A new study identified the largest known genome of any organism in a fern found in Pacific islands. Its cells have more than 50 times the DNA as human cells have.

Marvellous memories are often attributed to elephants, but scientists have discovered that plants can also learn and remember – even though they do not have a brain. Scientists claim fern-like ...

Ferns are an interesting group of plants from a very ancient lineage, all of them vascularized, with plenty of water-conducting internal “plumbing.” ...