Fern

Marattiopsida

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Osmundopsida

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Gleicheniopsida

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Pteridopsida

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A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of some twenty thousand species of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly known as Filicophyta. A fern is defined as a vascular plant that does not produce seeds, but reproduces by spores to initiate an alternation of generations. New sporophyte fronds typically arise by circinate vernation (that is, "leaf" formation by unrolling).

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Plant: Land plants (embryophytes)Non-vascular plants (bryophytes)Hepaticophyta - liverwortsAnthocerotophyta - hornwortsBryophyta - mossesVascular plants (tracheophytes)Lycopodiophyta - clubmossesEquisetophyta - horsetailsPteridophyta - "true" fernsPsilotophyta - whisk fernsOphioglossophyta - adderstonguesS...

Vascular plant: Non-seed-bearing plantsEquisetophytaLycopodiophytaPsilotophytaPteridophytaSuperdivision SpermatophytaPinophytaCycadophytaGinkgophytaGnetophytaMagnoliophytaThe vascular plants are a plant group including the ferns, clubmosses, horsetails, flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms. Scientific n...

Seed: A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. The importance of the seed relative to more primitive forms of reproduction and dispersal is attested to by the success of these two groups of plants in dominating the landscape....

Fern related Images and Photos (experimental)

Fern V	Delicate Fern I	Sensitive Fern	Fern Impressions II
Fern Impressions II	The Fern Gatherer	Prehistoric Fern Micro Terrarium	Small Antique Fern II
New Zealand Fern	Rainforest Tree Fern and Stream Uganda	Adiantum Pedatum Hair Fern	Mountain Bindweed and Fern Fronds