TOPIC: New guy/Few questions????

Now here is what I call my tried and true seng pointer. It is rattlesnake fern. We just call it sengpointer!

Okay, thanks for the great pictures. I remember those black stems. It is a different sort of fern.

Edit: don't recall seeing any of the rattlesnake fern...but really didn't know what it was or to look for it either. Might be some there.

The \"bowl\" is seen in the picture with the bears...it does get a little light.

It does look like there's plenty light coming in. Here's a pic of the rattlesnake fern just emerging this last spring.

I was at the cabin this weekend...just got home a few hours ago. I did not find any ginseng, but it wasn't for lack of looking. I believe it has dried up by now but maybe there just is none there. I did have a look at that patch of black cohosh...what was flowering plants is black as tar and dried completely up. There was some younger stuff there that had not flowered and the leaves were a little green but starting to turn yellow.
I did find maybe some rattlesnake fern??? and several Adam and Eve orchids:

Cant wait for spring now so I can go looking again!!!!