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.nativeplantspnw.com/