Ferns are the oldest group of plants, numbering about 300 genera and about 10,000 species. Today they are spread all over the world and meet in a wide variety of places. The native land of the fern is tropical America, tropical Africa and tropical Australia.
Where do ferns grow in nature?
Florists today with great success and pleasure grow all kinds of ferns at home. Some aquatic species are even decorated with aquariums .
But where does fern grow today in natural conditions? Many species died out many years ago with dinosaurs due to climate change, so the remaining ones are only part of the rich kingdom that once inhabited the Earth.
Grow modern ferns in the shady forests, near the creeks, because they love the moisture. The plants take root both in meadows, in swamps, and sometimes on rocks (these ferns, on the contrary, prefer drought).
If you take the geography of the growth of ferns, it is easier to say where they do not grow - in the deserts and in Antarctica. In other places, even in Siberia, you can meet representatives of the family.
Where does the fern grow in Russia?
We can say that ferns grow everywhere in Russia, but the greatest variety is found in the Caucasus and the Far East. Although in the nature of the suburbs, 19 species of this amazing plant have been found.
The most common are in thin forests, in particular - in pine forests. There grows an ordinary eagle, whose leaves look like an open umbrella. It was Shishkin who pictured it in his painting "Ferns in the forest. Siverskaya. This fern grows in all climatic zones, except for the tundra and steppes.
Other fern species occur in shady spruce, mossy mixed forests, ravines, moist birch forests, along rivers.