Fern Finder: Identifying Native Ferns of Central and Northeastern North America (Revised) (Nature Study Guides)

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Easily Identify the Ferns You Find!

Enjoy learning to identify ferns with this guide from authors Anne Hallowell and Barbara Hallowell. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of ferns in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike or a walk in the woods.

Features:

Provides information to help you identify native ferns that grow in the United States Midwest and Northeast, as well as eastern Canada
Uses a dichotomous key, like other plant guides in the Nature Study Guides Finders series
Leads the user step-by-step through a series of choices, culminating in the identification of the species
Includes a large number of illustrations with line drawings

Table of Contents:

How to Use This Book

Parts of a Fern

To Identify a Fern

The Life Cycle of a Fern

Symbols

Begin Here (Identification Guide)

Index

Species List

Blade leaf frond
Walking Fern
Climbing Fern
Water Clover
Mosquito Fern
Moonwort
Little Grape Fern
Lance-leaved Grape Fern
Daisy-leaved Grape Fern
Sensitive Fern
Netted Chain Fern
Resurrection Fern
Common Polypody
Scott's Spleenwort
Lobed Spleenwort
Northern Holly Fern
Christmas Fern
Glade Fern
Green Spleenwort
Maidenhair Spleenwort
Bradley's Spleenwort
Ebony Spleenwort
Black-stemmed Spleenwort
Northern Maidenhair
Southern Maidenhair
Powdery Cloak Fern
Alabama Lip Fern
Purple Cliffbrake
Smooth Cliffbrake
Woolly Lip Fern
Slender Lip Fern
Hairy Lip Fern
Blunt-lobed Grape Fern
Dissected Grape Fern
Leathery Grape Fern
Sparse-lobed Grape Fern
Daisy-leaved Grape Fern
Rattlesnake Fern
Lance-leaved Grape Fern
Bracken
Mountain Fragile Fern
Limestone Oak Fern
Oak Fern
Broad Beech Fern
Narrow Beech Fern
Bulblet Fern
Wall Rue
Mountain Spleenwort
Braun's Holly Fern
Fragrant Wood Fern
New York Fern
Ostrich Fern
Cinnamon Fern
Interrupted Fern
Appalachian Filmy Fern
Virginia Chain Fern
Bradley's Spleenwort
Lady Fern
Silvery Glade Fern
Parsley Fern
Slender Cliffbrake
Rusty Woodsia
Smooth Woodsia
Alpine Woodsia
Rocky Mountain Woodsia
Blunt-lobed Woodsia
Oregon Woodsia
Hay-scented Fern
Massachusetts Fern
Marsh Fern
Fragile Fern
Marginal Wood Fern
Alpine Lady Fern
Boott's Wood Fern
Evergreen Wood Fern
Spinulose Wood Fern
Spreading Wood Fern
Goldie's Wood Fern
Log Fern
Male Fern
Crested Wood Fern
Clinton's Wood Fern

Anne C. Hallowell (B.S. biology, M.S. science education) is a naturalist and educator. She was an instructor with the National Audubon Society and Quebec-Labrador Foundation, taught elementary science, edited educational publications for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and directed a Schoolyard Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project on native prairies in Minnesota. She is active in environmental sustainability and education projects.

Barbara G. Hallowell (B.S. biology) was a life-long nature educator, inspiring students in many settings from elementary schools to community colleges. She was instrumental in her town's first Earth Day celebration, founded its conservation commission, developed nature trails, established a botany club, taught classes for National Wildlife Federation summits, and wrote Cabin: A Mountain Adventure and Mountain Year: A Southern Appalachian Nature Notebook. A skilled photographer, she used her pictures for over 50 years in public lectures on nature topics and outdoor travel.

Adventure Publications

Pub Date: January 01, 1981

0.21" H x 5.56" L x 4.1" W

64 pages

paperback

out of print