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Cyathea medullaris Cheilanthes clevelandii Sadleria cyatheoides Left: Cyathea medullaris, San Francisco Botanical Garden.
Middle: Cheilanthes clevelandii, Tilden Regional Park.
Right: Sadleria cyatheoides, UC Botanical Garden.
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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 in San Francisco has a large number of mature tree ferns located in Tree Fern Dell, situated between John F. Kennedy Drive and Lily Pond (Quarry Lake), near the Conservatory of Flowers. Click here for a map of the park.

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

Tilden Regional Park, Regional Parks Botanic Garden (California native ferns).

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

Click here here for an article on tree ferns in San Francisco, written for The British Pteridological Society Pteridologist, the Fern Magazine.

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.

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)

  • Texas

Texas Gulf Coast Fern Society (TGCFS)

Conservation

BGCI - Botanic Gardens Conservation International.

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

Plant Databases

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.

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.

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

Western Horticultural Society

Misc

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature

California Native Plant Society (CNPS)

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

Checklist of World Ferns

Connecticut Ferns - Connecticut Botanical Society.

Contra Costa Clean Water Program

Darwin Day Celebration

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

Discover Life

Encyclopedia of Life

The Fern Pages - Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Hardy Fern Library

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.

Timber Press

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

University of California at Davis - Botanical Conservatory

West Contra Costa Integrated Waste Management Authority - recyclemore

Online Groups and Mailing lists

Yahoo! Tree Fern 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