Until I looked at the developing fornds, I didn't think about the text that I had read that surmised that early botanists called Pteridium aquilinum "Eagle Fern" due to the "claw-like growth pattern of the crosier or the eagle-wing resemblance of the frond."
I vote for the depiction of an eagle in flight.
Our new national fern?
Another view.
My little brake of eagles.
I'm all for making this the national fern. That is a really cool fern! keep up the good work.
pep
