On the wild side
Jun 30, 2021
2 minutes
By Edward Kanze
The widespread interrupted fern, Claytosmunda claytoniana, given its common name by reproductive structures that interrupt the regular pattern of some of its fronds, grows in every Adirondack county. I can’t think of a plant more interesting and worth getting to know.
Consider this: Fossil ferns 180 million years old yield cell nuclei and chromosomes that convince paleontologists that the interrupted fern
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