Cinnamon Fern, Osmunda cinnamomea
This is a robust fern that grows in clumps and in the spring produces distinctive stalks of cinnamon colored spore-producing fronds. Later in the season when the fertile fronds have withered, the plant can be distinguished from other ferns by the very pointed fronds and pinnae (branches of the fronds.) Cinnamon Ferns are planted near the Water Department building in the large planting beds on the Pond side.