Bird and Moon by Rosemary Mosco for September 23, 2019

“Because my stories are always so long and meandering that I never get to the end of them.”

His friends are just telling him why he got his name.

According to Wikipedia, it’s a living fossil and was used by the Iroquois to treat diarrhea and venereal disease.

From PrairieNursery.com: The fruiting bodies of Interrupted Fern are produced on the lower portion of the fronds, in between the pinnae (leaf blades), giving this distinctive fern its name. In spring, the newly emerging silvery-white “fiddleheads” are striking in appearance. Osmunda claytoniana does best in moderately damp acid soils, but adapts well to almost any good garden soil in part to full shade.

Just read “False Knees”. It pairs up well with today’s “Bird and Moon”.

lmao .. so, if a plant is going to be so presumptuous as to try to talk, I guess the birds and animals aren’t having that.

great, now I have to google why it’s called an interrupted fern.

Broad fronds are “interrupted” in the middle by spore-bearing pinnae (leaflets) which typically fall off in mid summer, thus giving rise to the common name. from http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=t210