PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - What's that sticking up out of the snow? Feathers? No, it might be the fertile fronds of our native ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris. Native to the northeast, ostrich ferns ...

Spring is in full swing, which means a Maine delicacy is in season: fiddleheads. Fiddleheads are typically found by rivers ...

If you look at wooded hillsides right now you’ll see that they’re almost all green, although some individual tree species are just putting out their leaves. Nature staggers growth and maturation so ...

Few native, woodland ground covers rival the ancient, elegant and edible ostrich fern, or Matteuccia pensylvanica. Happening upon a mass of sun-dappled, dancing and rustling giant ostrich fern fronds ...

As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. All fern leaves develop from fiddleheads in the spring, but the ostrich fern ...

Fiddleheads, so named because of their resemblance to the musical instrument, are the tightly wound, emerging fronds of several species of ferns. Many cultures, including Native American tribes in the ...