Fern

Moonwort Botrychium lunaria with sporangia, spore producing stems.

Fern spore of an Ophioglossum species, showing the distinctive tri-partite shape and textured spore surface.

Adder’s-tongue fern Ophioglossum vulgatum showing spore bearing “tongue”

Bracken Pteridium aquilinum showing leaf fronds, roots, and inrolled leaf margins with sori

Maidenhair spleenwort Asplenuum trichomanes tuft of this small and pretty fern found growing in a churchyard wall

Oakland landscapw with details of mosses and lickesn and some insects that live in and on the oak trees including beetles and wasps; bird in the background include the nuthatch, pied flycatcher, warbler, and great tit

Old oak woodland with bullfinch, woodpecker, badger, orange tip butterfly, vole, and ground beetle in amongst the plants growing on the forest floor below the spreading oaks