189K views · 5.7K reactions | Fun fact: Ferns are the oldest plant...

This fern’s rhizomes taste like licorice! 🌿 Licorice fern It’s a summer deciduous plant, meaning it goes dormant in dry, warm summers and is rejuvenated in the fall and winter when cool and wet weather returns! They grow on soil, rocks, or trees as an epiphyte in western North America (Alaska to California)! They also love to grow on moss covered big leaf maple trees. These ferns are also called the many-footed fern because they grow grow single fronds along a thick creeping rhizome. The fronds