Take a trip to S.C. mountains to see this mystery plant

BY JOHN NELSON - Curator, USC Herbarium
Posted 2/6/11

There are about 10,000 species of ferns found all around the world now. This number is actually quite a reduction from the number of species that had evolved by the middle of what we call the "Carboniferous Period," some 300 million years ago. At …

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