An easy fern to identify grows in fountain-like clumps and has glossy, dark green leaflets, or pinnae. This is Christmas fern ...

This species of fern retains its deep green color through the Christmas holiday season. The stocking shape of the pinnae (leaflets) seals the connection for some. Christmas ferns grow in a clump ...

Tromping through our woods in December in search of a Christmas tree, I often notice an evergreen fern, one of the few green ...