Question: Please help me identify these two ferns. Photos were taken in Litchfield County, CT in October, 2017.
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Question
Please help me identify these two ferns. Photos were taken in Litchfield County, CT in October, 2017.
Answer
Dear Donald, I would like to help you more than I can, but both photographs are not sufficient to confidently identify the fern in each. If you are able to, in the future, please take multiple images of each species, one closer, and one viewing the underside of the leaf. The green fern is a species of the genus Dryopteris (wood fern), but I can't tell you for certain which one. The brown fern appears to be a member of the Osmundaceae (royal fern family), but could either be Osmundastrum cinnamomeum (cinnamon fern) or Osmunda claytoniana (interrupted fern). I hope these answers are at least of some help.
