TOPIC: what type of fern?

Thanks guys!

jimsenger66, I am in Western NC.

Here's the 2 other ferns growing where my ginseng grows. Christmas? Rattlesnake?

There are lots and lots of this fern.

Maybe new york fern or bracken fern but leaning towards rattle snake fern.

Oops...i must have hit the wrong reply and created a new thread. Mods, is it possible to merge this one with the other about companion plant ID? Sorry fir the trouble. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply, Shadow.

Oops...i must have hit the wrong reply and created a new thread. Mods, is it possible to merge this one with the other about companion plant ID? Sorry fir the trouble. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply, Shadow.

Lar: I know the 2nd pic is Christmas Fern by the brown fuzzy stems. They would have been curled as they came out in spring. The 1st pic they are too far in the pic to see clear but look a lot like the Christmas Fern in younger stages of life, and havn't grown into clumps yet. I will attempt to attach a pic I got off internet (barely sprouting this far north for a good \"real\" pic) of Rattlesnake fern. It is always a single plant (not clumped) and will lean on it's side come seng season. Old timers always said the seng is the direction it leans but I myself feel it just tells one it's good soil and conditions for seng.