oak fern

I’ve got my hands full sifting through western hemlock and lodgepole pine, stepping over a mossy trunk trying to miss the oak fern, and peering past splayed layers of needles.

The delicate oak fern grows in great abundance from Eatonville to the timber line, and probably does more to beautify the woods than any other fern.

The outlines of the young bracken resemble the little oak fern.

Dryópteris, Greek for oak fern, has been chosen by Underwood and Britton and Brown and has grown in favor.

The parts of the oak fern develop with great regularity, each pinna, pinnule and lobe having another exactly opposite to it nearly always.