 Buy
Books about Ferns
Many of the sites listed in the general page for vascular plants contain
information and photographs about the ferns of North America and are not
repeated here.
 Tree
of Life - Leptosporangiate Ferns. Kathleen Pryer and Alan Smith. This
site is an introduction to the ferns in the form of a phylogenetic tree
with information on biology, life cycles, morphology, and systematics.
Field
Systematic Botany. Pteroidophytes, an Overview. Texas A&M University
Herbarium. An introduction to the ferns and their allies.
Ferns:
Of Fern Forest and Southern Florida. Doug Scofield. An excellent fern
site with information and photographs of the ferns of southern Florida
with a key to species.
Gallery
of Connecticut Ferns. Connecticut Botanical Society. A gallery of
photographs with associated information on ferns from the state of Connecticut.
FrnPnhdl.pdf
- Ross, L. T. An identification guide to the ferns of the Florida
panhandle. This file is in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) and you will need an Adobe
Acrobat reader to view it.
Non-flowering
Plant Family Access Page. Gerald Carr. This site has photographs of,
and information about, the orders and families of ferns. The photographs
represent the spectrum of the various groups within a family. However
the the distribution of each species is not given and is not necessarily
North American.
Brief
Introduction to Ferns. American Fern Society. This site is, as it
says, a brief introduction to the structure, biology, and life cycle of
the ferns.
Mosquito
Fern. Royal British Columbia Museum. Information on the biology conservation
status of the endangered plant Azolla mexicana of the family Salviniaceae
in British Columbia.
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