Minnesota’s livestock producers face an ongoing challenge from toxic plants that can cause severe illness or death in cattle, sheep, and horses. Among the most hazardous are bracken fern, chokecherry, ...

Rodriguez notes that in the Pacific Northwest it is also possible to come across the Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) and lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina). “As with anything you forage ...

This means the fern can wait until conditions improve before it sends up new rhizome stems and fronds. Bracken fern, which you might see in a range of habitats across the globe, grows in this way.