climbing fern

Types:

Hartford fern, Lygodium palmatum, creeping fern

delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds

Lygodium microphyllum, climbing maidenhair, climbing maidenhair fern, snake fern

tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida

Type of:

fern

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores

climber

a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants