“Like all the other baneberries, the ferny leaves are a pleasure from spring to autumn.”

“On the other hand, a planting that combines large, tropical-looking leaves with fine-textured, ferny foliage will have pizzazz.”

“Among the designs are geometrics, florals and works that suggest world travel, like Côte d'Azur, the ferny pattern on the book cover.”

“The big leathery leaves of the hostas are an excellent foil for the fernlike foliage of the astilbes.”

“One is reminded of the famous fernlike markings on the Solnhofen fossils known as dendrites.”

“The Pteridopsida were present, bearing spores on their leaves as they do today, but there were also fernlike seed-bearing ferns, the pteridosperms.”