Also known as Osmunda cinnamomea.
Upright cinnamon-brown fertile fronds rise separately from the green leafy fronds of this wetland fern.
Cinnamon Fern. Select the photo to open the gallery.
Plant group Fern
Life cycle Perennial
Reproduction Spores
Habitat Wet woods, bog margins, and stream edges
Explore reported observations. Sightings are not a complete range map.
Look in moist to wet ground. Spring brings woolly fiddleheads; fertile fronds later turn brown and wither.
Interrupted Fern bears fertile portions in the middle of an otherwise leafy frond. Cinnamon Fern has separate fertile fronds.
The large leafy fronds gather around the crown. Compare their outline and the depth of the divisions.
The upright brown structures are fertile fronds, not flowers. They bear the structures that produce spores.
New fronds emerge tightly curled and covered with pale wool. The gallery includes both close and wider views of this stage.
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A fern of eastern North American wetlands and damp woods, often on acidic soils.
Field photographs: Where’s Wildlife.
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