Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Licorice Fern

Polypodium glycyrrhiza - General: Small to medium-sized, evergreen, to 70 cm tall (but often much smaller), from a creeping, reddish-brown, scaly, licorice-flavored rhizome; often growing on deciduous tree trunks and branches. Leaves: Stripes straw-colored, smooth, usually shorter than the blades; blades to 50 cm long, once-pinnate; leaflets usually longer than 3 cm, with pointed tips and finely scalloped or toothed margins. Ecology: On wet, mossy ground, logs and rocks (sometimes forms large sheets over rock slabs) or on tree trunks and branches, often bigleaf maple at low elevations.