Fiddlehead

This is likely a Bracken fern (Pteridium sp.) New fronds of ferns grow by circinate vernation to protect the growing tip. This fern crozier was found among many along the Cowles Bog trail in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

 

Photographed using a Nikkor 135 bellows lens on a Nikon PB-4 bellows with a Sony A7R.

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