Count the Ferns

Fern Forest Nature Center, Coconut Creek, Broward County


cypress stump with ferns
Near the entrance to Fern Forest Nature Center's main building, you'll find this stump, a remnant of a forest of old-growth cypress that once dominated the region. The old-growth cypress are gone but this stump continues to give life, especially to a number of ferns growing on it. How many species of ferns do you count and an you name them?

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