Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Female whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) perched on bracken frond, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, June.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Recently burnt heathland, showing new Bracken growth (Pteridium aquilinum), Caesar's Camp, Fleet, Hampshire, England, UK, May.

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Scots pine forest extending up to natural tree line, with bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) in foreground, Rothiemurchus, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, September 2011

Niall Benvie / MYN / Unfurling single frond of Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) Scotland, UK

Wild Wonders of Europe / Biancarelli / Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) amongst Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta / Endymion non-scriptum) Hallerbos Belgium, April 2009

Jose B. Ruiz / Abstract of Lady-fren frond {Athyrium filix femina}

Oscar Dewhurst / Fallow deer (Dama dama) stag standing in bracken at sunrise. Richmond Park, London, UK. January

Oscar Dewhurst / Fallow deer (Dama dama) stag walking through long grass at sunrise. Richmond Park, London, UK. January.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) in Birch woodland (Betula pendula) in late autumn, Scotland, UK, October.

Nick Upton / Male Ruddy darter dragonfly (Sympetrum sanguineum) sun basking on a Bracken leaf (Pteridium aquilinum), Studland Heath, Dorset, UK, July.

Bruno D'Amicis / Fern (Pteridium aquilinum) in old-growth Beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest. Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park / Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise UNESCO World Heritage Site Italy. Octob...

Guy Edwardes / View over New Forest lowland heathland from Vereley Hill at dawn, Burley, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England, UK. August 2011