Fern plants typically grow in shaded or semi-shaded areas of a prairie, often in moist, low-lying spots where the soil retains more moisture. They can be found near the edges of woodlands, in pockets of trees, or along streams and wetlands within the prairie ecosystem. While ferns are not dominant in open prairie habitats, they thrive in microhabitats that provide the right conditions for their growth.
Ferns are an example of plants that grow from spores instead of seeds. Spores are tiny reproductive structures that develop on the underside of fern fronds and can germinate into new fern plants under suitable conditions.
Wildflowers
Some of the plants that grow in the prairie such as those found in the Great Plains of South Dakota include prairie clover, goldenrod, sunflowers, needle grass and prickly pear cactus.
Prothallus
Spores from adult fern plants get carried in the in the wind and grow on trees.
they have seeds
some endangered plants are the Eastern prairie fringed orchid, the dwarf lake iris, the American hart's- tongue fern, and the lakeside daisy
Normal plants grow from seeds. But banana tree can't grow from seeds. They need a banana plant to grow. Plant such as- Fungi,Moss,Fern etc grow from spores. Spores blow in wind.
"Fern" is a generic term used to describe a group of plants with common physical and biological features. Ferns are seedless, vascular plants that have roots, stems and fronds. They repoduce by spores and do not produce flowers like angiosperms. HOWEVER, most "ferns" belong to the plant Division: Pteridophyta, but that is as far as the taxonomy can be taken without more information.
Plants found in the prairie Plants found in the prairie
Fern fossils come from ferns. Ferns are plants, not animals. Hence, fern fossils are plants, not animals.
The seed-like object that falls from a fern is called a spore. Unlike seeds from flowering plants, ferns reproduce using spores, which are typically produced in clusters on the undersides of their fronds. When the spores are released and find a suitable environment, they can germinate and grow into a new fern through a process called alternation of generations.