Last week there was a once-in-a-decade fern conference held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Every ten years or so the fern community gets together to hold such a meeting, and people come from around the world to hear about what's new and exciting in fern biology. Next Generation Pteridology was the name of this meeting and it was a great success and a lot of fun. After the conference, I headed to the field with some old fern friends to do a bit of exploring in western Virginia. We were particularly interested in finding populations of
Asplenium and
Dryopteris species, and we were successful. I'll post the pictures of
Dryopteris in part II, but here are three species of
Aspleniums and a few other botanical highlights.
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| Asplenium platyneuron |
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| Asplenium trichomanes |
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| Two Aspleniums |
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| Asplenium rhizophyllum, the walking fern |
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| Athyrium filix-femina, lady fern |
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| Pellaea glabra |
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| Some gratuitous lichens! |
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