Licorice Ferns - How to Identify Them! || Nerdy About Nature Flora Guide

The most amazing little accent to the forests around Cascadia, Licorice Ferns are absolute beauties - one of my all time favorites! Known as a polypod, these gorgeous little ferns sprout from sprawling rhizomes that often live in thick mats of moss on rocks, stumps or Bigleaf Maple trees, and jeez are they awesome!
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Produced & Directed by Ross Reid
~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples-Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~
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References:
- 'Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast' by Jim Pojar & Andy MacKinnon. Published by BC Ministry of Forests & Long Pine Publishing, Vancouver BC. 1994
- www.nativeplant...

[@jakedepoe9015]

I really enjoyed your format for showing this beautiful fern. Will be watching, subbed!

[@AngelD32]

In 6th Grade a counselor pointed these ferns out to us on a hiking trail, and I've never forgotten them :)

[@NerdyAboutNature]

They're my favorite!

[@veesoho93]

What a great energy you have !

[@osprey1645]

Walking through the forest munching on some licorice fern root is the best.

[@NerdyAboutNature]

Agreed!

[@hemlockcreative]

Love those ferns!

[@NerdyAboutNature]

They sure are beauties!

[@rachelyale631]

I've always wondered why ferns are so popular in the greenhouses. I've always wanted to find a variegated fern

[@NerdyAboutNature]

Ahh Ferns are the coolest!