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Cyathea medullaris Sadleria cyatheoides Cheilanthes clevelandii Left: Cyathea medullaris, San Francisco Botanical Garden.
Middle: Sadleria cyatheoides, UC Botanical Garden.
Right: Cheilanthes clevelandii, Tilden Regional Park.
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Botanical Gardens and Parks

The following San Francisco Bay Area gardens and parks feature various species of fern:

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Golden Gate Park in San Francisco has a large number of mature tree ferns located in Tree Fern Dell, situated around Lily Pond (Quarry Lake) which is between John F. Kennedy Drive and Middle Drive East, to the southwest of the Conservatory of Flowers and north of the National AIDS Memorial Grove. Click here for a map of the park.

The National AIDS Memorial Grove (de Laveaga Dell), south of Tree Fern Dell in Golden Gate Park, has a number of tree ferns growing in the Fern Grotto (located to the west of the grove).

The Conservatory of Flowers (many types of fern, including some tree ferns).

The M.H. de Young Museum (50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive) has a number of tree ferns planted both inside and outside, and the California Academy of Sciences (55 Music Concourse Drive) also has a number of tree ferns planted either side of the main entrance.

San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum (many types of fern, including tree ferns). Click here for a map of the garden.


View Golden Gate Park in a larger map

East Bay

University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley located at 200 Centennial Drive (many types of fern, including tree ferns). Click here for a map of the garden.

There are also ferns (including a tree fern) located at the entrance to the University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California at Berkeley. The herbaria are on the ground floor of the central atrium of the Valley Life Sciences Building. Click here for a map of the Valley Life Sciences Building.

Tilden Regional Park, Regional Parks Botanic Garden (California native ferns). See also Friends of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden

Click here for an article on tree ferns in San Francisco, written for The British Pteridological Society Pteridologist, the Fern Magazine (Volume 5, Part 1).

The article is copyright © 2008 The British Pteridological Society. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means) without the permission of the British Pteridological Society.

Fern Societies

Australia

Fern Society of South Australia, Inc.

Fern Society of Victoria, Inc.

Netherlands

Nederlandse Varenvereniging

Germany

Gesellschaft der Staudenfreunde e.V. - Fachgruppe Farne

Philippines

Fern and Nature Society of the Philippines

South Africa

Fern Society of Southern Africa

Switzerland

Schweizerische Vereinigung der Farnfreunde

United Kingdom

British Pteridological Society (BPS)

United States

American Fern Society (AFS)

Hardy Fern Foundation (HFF)

Tropical Fern and Exotic Plant Society, Inc. (TFEPS)

  • California

Los Angeles International Fern Society (LAIFS)

San Diego Fern Society (SDFS)

  • Delaware

Delaware Valley Fern and Wildflower Society (DVFWS)

  • Florida

Sarasota Fern Society

  • Louisiana

Louisiana Fern Society

  • Texas

Texas Gulf Coast Fern Society (TGCFS)

Conservation

BGCI - Botanic Gardens Conservation International.

Center for Plant Conservation

IUCN - The World Conservation Union. Donate online now to help save threatened species

Plant Databases

Australian Database Resources - Australian National Botanic Gardens/Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research

Calflora - Information on wild California plants for conservation, education, and appreciation.

California Native Plant Link Exchange

CalPhotos: Plants - Searchable database of plant images - University of California, Berkeley.

CaprICE Plant Species Distribution Map Browser - interactive map display of the distributions of plant species in California.

ePIC - Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

GBIF Data Portal - Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

GRIN Taxonomy for Plants - USDA-ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network.

International Plant Names Index (IPNI)

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

Jepson Online Interchange for California Floristics

NISIC - USDA-NAL National Invasive Species Information Center.

PLANTS - USDA-NRCS Database of Plants in the U.S. and its territories.

Tropicos.org - Missouri Botanical Garden.

Weather data

Weather data from our nursery is available from Weather Underground, along with the following sites:

Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP)

MesoWest - University of Utah.

PWS Weather

Other Fern sites

Checklist of World Ferns - Michael Hassler and Brian Swale.

Cold-hardy Tree Ferns Page - Ian Barclay.

Connecticut Ferns - Connecticut Botanical Society.

The Fern House - Mark Longley.

The Fern Pages - Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Ferns in Britain and Ireland - Roger Golding.

Ferns of the Canberra Region - David and Christopher Nicholls.

The Giant Horsetails (Equisetum giganteum, Equisetum myriochaetum, and Equisetum x schaffneri) - Chad Husby.

Hardy Fern Library

Rod Hill's Treefern Page

Skye Ferns - Mike Taylor.

Horticulture and Gardening

California Horticultural Society

Dave's Garden

GardenCentral

The Gardening Launch Pad

Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture

Horticultural Myths - Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, Ph.D. Washington State University.

iVillage GardenWeb

MasterGardener Magazine

National Gardening Association

Pacific Horticulture Magazine

Royal Horticultural Society: Gardening Online

Western Horticultural Society

Misc

Bay Nature: An Exploration of Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area

BBC | Earth News

Bibliography of Pteridological Works - John A. Knouse.

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) - Pteridophyta (ferns and fern allies).

Botany and Mycology Conference 2010

California Information Node (CAIN) - a regional node of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII).

California Native Plant Society (CNPS)

CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online - Darwin's complete publications.

Contra Costa Clean Water Program

Darwin Day Celebration

Devonian Times - information on Devonian fauna and flora, including early ferns.

Discover Life

Earthprint Ltd.

Encyclopedia of Life

evolve 2009 - honoring Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.

The Ginkgo Pages - information on all aspects of the Ginkgo biloba tree.

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation - Carnegie Mellon University.

The Jepson Manual Online - comprehensive guide to the nearly 8,000 vascular plant taxa in California.

Mertz Library - New York Botanical Garden.

The Natural History Museum, London - Department of Botany

Natural Resources Database (NRDB) - flora and fauna in the open spaces/nature preserves of the San Francisco Bay Area.

New Zealand fossil spores and pollen: an illustrated catalogue

Saint Helena National Trust - ‘Re-Forestation Fund’ International Appeal

Smithsonian Institution - Department of Botany

Timber Press

Time Tree - The Timescale of Life

Tree of Life Project - Polypodiopsida

The University and Jepson Herbaria - University of California at Berkeley.

University of California at Davis - Botanical Conservatory

Urban Tilth - projects help develop local food production capacity in west Contra Costa County.

West Contra Costa Integrated Waste Management Authority - recyclemore

Online Forums, Groups, and Mailing lists

The American Fern Society Fern Forum (Registration required).

The Fern Forum provided by The British Pteridological Society.

Yahoo! British Ferns Group

Yahoo! Fern Enthusiasts of Asian Regional Nations Group

Yahoo! Indian Ferns Group

Yahoo! Staghorn Ferns Group

Yahoo! Tree Fern Group

Yahoo! Tropical Ferns Group

Ferns mailing list (formerly Fernet). To subscribe, send an e-mail containing SUBSCRIBE FERNS in the message body to: majordomo@hort.net

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Fern books

Encyclopedia of Garden Ferns Fern Grower's Manual: Revised and Expanded Edition A Natural History of Ferns

Fern image gallery

Cibotium Dicksonia Cyathea
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