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What Are
Sensitive Ferns?
Here we are in a wetland. One of the main indicators of a wetland would be a sensitive fern.
Sensitive ferns are one of the first ferns that come up in spring. They're called a sensitive fern because if they get touched with any frost at all, they'll immediately die.
What's special about sensitive ferns is they're an indicator of ground water. When you see a sensitive fern (even if you don't see water), there is water in the ground.
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