The park is also home to ferns including walking fern.
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Among interesting plants in the area are the walking fern and Jeffersonian twin-leaf.
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Much more rarely, walking fern hybridizes with two other common spleenworts of eastern North America.
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A triploid hybrid between walking fern and Tutwiler's spleenwort was accidentally produced in culture.
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Some common plants and flowering plants include : Christmas ferns, Walking ferns, Thimbleweed, Pale Indian Plantain, Prunella vulgaris.
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Walking fern ( asplenium rhizophyllum ) is a small fern with long, narrow tips that can touch the ground, then root to give a walking appearance.
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The name " walking fern " derives from the fact that new plantlets grow wherever the arching leaves of the parent touch the ground, creating a walking effect.
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Originally identified as a variety of walking fern ( " Asplenium rhizophyllum " ), it was classified as a separate species by Thomas Nuttall in 1818.
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The hybrid between walking fern and wall-rue ( " A . ?shawneense " ), is known from one collection on sandstone in the Shawnee Hills of Illinois.
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"' Walking fern "'may refer to two species of fern in the genus " Asplenium " which are occasionally placed in a separate genus " Camptosorus ".
