Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Ostrich or Fiddlehead fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) growing in Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China

Ingo Arndt / Coniferous woodland in Harz National Park, Saxony, Germany

Ingo Arndt / Bracken leaves backlit {Pteridium aquilinum} Germany

MYN / Dirk Funhoff / Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) fronds unfurling, Büchelberg, Germany. Meetyourneighbours.net project.

Sandra Bartocha / Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) tree trunks with Eagle fern (Pteridium aquilinum) in fog. Godendorf, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) in forest, Upper Bavaria, Germany

Sven Zacek / Shuttlecock fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) in woodland at sunset, Northern Estonia, May 2012

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Ostrich feather / Shuttlecock ferns (Matteuccia struthiopteris) Ghimbavul Valley Gorge, Arges County, Leota Mountains, Carpathian Mountains, Romania, July

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Shuttlecock ferns (Matteuccia struthiopteris) and Black alder trres (Alnus glutinosa) in Ghimbavul Valley Gorge, Arges County, Leota Mountains range, Carpathian Mountains, Romania, July

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Shuttlecock ferns (Matteuccia struthiopteris) and Burdock (Arctium lappa) in Ghimbavul Valley Gorge, Arges County, Leota Mountains range, Carpathian Mountains, Romania, July

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Shuttlecock ferns (Matteuccia struthopteris) Burdock (Arctium lappa) and Black alder (Alnus glutinosa) in Ghimbavul Valley Gorge, Arges county, Leota Mountains, Carpathian Mountains, Romania, July

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Shuttlecock ferns (Matteuccia struthiopteris) and Burdock (Arctium lappa) in Ghimbavul Valley Gorge, Arges County, Leota Mountains range, Carpathian Mountains, Romania, July