I attach a scan of the tip of the fronds? of 3 fern like plants I found in a NW Portland, Oregon wooded area. The plants were large and bushy. They were about 2 to 3 feet high and had many large fronds coming from a central base. Each frond? (I have no idea what I should be calling these) had many smaller bracts? fronds? on them. There appeared to be no fiddleheads nor spores on the undersides. They had no flowers or buds. There were 3 reasonably distinct versions of the pattern of the small leaves. (See scan). Anyone have any idea what these are? I hope the attachment worked, the computer SAID it did but you all know how that is.
Hmm. No real smell outside of being slightly "greenish" smelling. (I know that is not a great description but definitely not malodorus.) No black spots. I thought the 3 different fr0nd/bract patterns on 3 different variations of what seemed to be the same plant was interesting. Like I said, I thought it was a fern but the 3 variations throw me plus the no spores, no fiddleheads.
