Deer Fern
The Hoh Rain Forest on Washington's Olympic Peninsula is one of the most amazing places in North America to see enormous masses of ferns and mosses. Deer ferns are common throughout the Pacific Northwest and these were found growing in an old-growth part of the forest that is untouched by the logging industry. Native American hunters traditionally used these as a hunger suppressant, and are an important food source for elk in winter.
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Athyriales, B. spicant, Blechnaceae, Blechnum, Blechnum spicant, Hoh Rain Forest, Hoh Rainforest, Jefferson County, Olympic Mountains, Olympic National Park, PNW, Pacific NW, Pacific Northwest, Plantae, Pteridophyta, Pteridopsida, Washington, chain fern, deer fern, evergreen, fern, forb, hard fern, herb, perennial, rain forest, rainforest, summer, west coast, western
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