Sword ferns, common in the region, were picked each year by several hundred people to be processed into medicine.

He said sword ferns were at times entirely dependent on the water coming off of redwood trees.

Plants such as the sword fern are prolific, particularly near ample water sources.

Nurseries contract to remove sword ferns and moss to sell to gardeners.

The native species of Sword fern and Stinging nettle are common.

A species of fern known by the common name "Dudley's sword fern".

In more humid climates, these trees will often be seen with sword ferns sprouting just beneath the crown.

At the community center, an $80,000 demonstration garden will educate busy homeowners on how to use low-upkeep native plants like sword ferns in their yards.

Ground cover consists of mostly sword fern, gooseberry, western wake robin and redwood sorrel.

Much of the understory consists of vine maple, salal, and sword fern.

The Kruckeberg's sword fern is found in the cool, moist micro-habitats in the granite formations.

Characteristic species include coastal redwood, California bay, tanbark oak, big-leaf maple, and western sword fern.

It is also characterised by bigleaf maple, red alder, sword fern, and red huckleberry.

Sword ferns, maidenhair ferns and holly ferns led the contingent of 19th-century favorites.

The ground cover includes snowberry, Oregon-grape, salal, sword fern, trillium, and fawn lily.

Douglas fir and sword ferns grow to immense heights in the wet, sun-deprived cliffs of the north-facing Oregon side.

Its dense carpet includes many varieties of fern (mainly Western Sword Fern), shrub and moss.

More than 90 species of wildflower such as fringecup are found in the park as well as plants such as sword fern.

Polystichum scopulinum is a species of fern known by the common names mountain holly fern and rock sword fern.

Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)

The Tres Sendas trail, an old logging road, meanders through cliffs lush with cascading sword ferns and the occasional hemlock.

Sword ferns are very tough and can survive occasional dry periods, but do well only with consistent moisture, light sunlight, and prefer cool weather to overly warm.

Western Sword Fern spores have many medicinal uses, including relieving the pain from the sting of a Stinging Nettle.

There are also a number of common understory flora associates including Sword Fern, salal and Western Poison Oak.

Mature forests consist of Douglas-fir, western hemlock, salal, sword fern, vine maple, Oregon grape, and rhododendron.

The larvae feed on various ferns, including Nephrolepis exaltata.

Many ferns are grown in horticulture as landscape plants, for cut foliage and as houseplants, especially the Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata) and other members of the genus Nephrolepis.

Historically on the mainland, a variety of ferns and terrestrial orchids could be found, including Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata), Florida oncidium, and sword fern (Nephrolepis biserrata).

My success is marginally better with those larger ferns that have rather more robust foliage, such as the Nephrolepis exaltata varieties, which include the graceful Boston fern and feathery lace fern, both of which are widely available.

The Sword Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata) is a species of fern in the family Lomariopsidaceae (sometimes treated in the families Davalliaceae or Oleandraceae, or in its own family, Nephrolepidaceae), native to tropical regions throughout the world.