Green On Green
by Teresa Zieba
Title
Green On Green
Artist
Teresa Zieba
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A fern is a member of a group of about 10,560 known extant species of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular (i.e. having water-conducting vessels). They have branched stems and leaves, like other vascular plants, but these are megaphylls, more complex than the simple microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns have what are called fiddleheads that expand into fronds, which are each delicately divided.
Ferns first appear in the fossil record 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period.
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July 5th, 2016
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