The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos as well as additional resources on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month’s topic.
While most of the Glencarlyn videos have a science-based, instructional focus, the series on “Beautiful Native Plants” was created to simply celebrate the ornamental characteristics of many species that are either native to the Mid-Atlantic region or are environmentally friendly and grow well here. Based on a personal library of still photos and a few video clips, each presentation introduces viewers to around a dozen plants, providing scientific and common names and illustrating their full forms as well as details of buds, flowers, and foliage through the seasons. The videos are designed to be viewed with audio on to provide a background of music and the sounds of nature. You are invited to fall in love with beautiful native plants.
Beautiful Ferns, Sedges, & Grasses
Featured Plants – Tried & True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Ferns
- Adiantum pedatum (Maidenhair Fern)
- Athyrium asplenioides (Lady Fern)
- Dryopteris marginalis (Marginal Wood Fern)
- Matteuccia struthiopteris (Ostrich Fern)
- Onoclea sensibilis (Sensitive Fern)
- Osmunda claytoniana (Interrupted Fern)
- Osmunda spectabilis (Royal Fern)
- Osmundastrum cinnamomeum (Cinnamon Fern)
- Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas Fern)
Sedges
Grasses
Related Illustrated Glossary Terms
Ferns
- crosier, crozier – [ KROH-zher ] noun: the curled top of a young fern frond, also commonly referred to as a fiddlehead
- frond – [ frond ] noun: the leaf of a fern
- ramentum – [ ra-MEN-tum, ruh–MEN-tuhm ] noun, plural ramenta: any one of the thin, chaffy, brownish, often fringed or laciniate scales borne upon the leaves or young shoots of certain ferns, and that consist of a single layer of cells
- sporangium – [ spuh-RAN-jee-uhm ] noun, plural sporangia: a sac or receptacle in which reproductive spores are produced and stored
Sedges
- culm – [ kuhlm ] noun: the stem of grasses, sedges, rushes, and cattails
- sedge – [sej] noun: a wetland plant of the Cyperaceae family that resembles grass, but differs in having achenes, solid, often triangular stems, linear leaves and monocotyledonous spikelet inflorescences
Grasses