This fern’s rhizomes taste like licorice, which is how it got the name: Licorice fern. 🌿 It’s a summer deciduous plant, meaning it goes dormant in dry, warm summers and is rejuvenated in the fall when cool and wet weather returns. Seeing them in the fall brings me so much joy! They grow on soil, rocks, or trees as an epiphyte in western North Anerica (Alaska to California)! They love to grow on moss covered big leaf maple trees 🍁. Licorice ferns are traditional edible and medicinal plants to c