IM SURE THESE ARE CHRISTMAS FERNS (Polystichum acrostichoides)! I have never see  so many in the wild before. They were scattered all about the sparser part of the woods (not far from the Canadian Hemlock zone).

I took some fertile spore-frond bits, but I haven’t sown them yet so…. fuck. Will have to try again when I have more on-hand equipment for such a thing.