Alex Hyde / Adder (Vipera berus) basking amongst bracken fronds. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK. April.

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

Oscar Dewhurst / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag pursuing hind through the bracken. Bushy Park, London, UK. September

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.

Ross Hoddinott / Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus) on bracken, Broxwater, Cornwall, UK. August.

Paul Hobson / Pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne) butterfly basking on Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) frond. North Wales, UK. June.

Paul Hobson / Pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne) resting on Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) frond. North Wales, UK. June.