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In January 2019, we lost a fixture of the northern Indiana and Chicago region botanical community. Keith Board, a past regular contributor ...

For several years I have led a very popular and relatively inexpensive grass identification and ecology workshop at The Morton Arboretum.  ...

As I've done the past two years, I'll be leading a grass identification and ecology workshop at The Morton Arboretum this summer.  I...

Ah spring! Today the sun was shining and the temperature was mild. I took a long walk in the woods and soaked in as much of the beauty as...

Over the 2014 and 2015 growing seasons, Mary Damm and I conducted a plant inventory at T.H. Steele Prairie State Preserve for the Iowa Depa...

In 2014, I was asked to lead two sessions of a grass identification and ecology workshop at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois.  The wo...

Aquilegia canadensis , Wild Columbine. This attractive member of the Ranunculaceae is beginning to put on a show in the Midwest. 

Often confused with the similar Trillium flexipes , the first two photos below are Trillium cernuum .  Look closely at the stamens... the a...

A YouTube Slide Show of Spring Wildflowers It's not too early to be thinking ahead to spring. Some of these ephemerals were photograph...

Flax-leaved Aster starts to flower pretty early for an aster, usually in late August. The leaves are very narrow and have scratchy-scabrous...

A YouTube Video Depicting all of Indiana's native orchids as accounted for in Orchids of Indiana by Mike Homoya This video represent...

On Friday before the Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society (INPAWS) Annual Conference in Bloomington, Indiana, I made a stop at the ...

Good article on this alarming trend... http://nmnh.typepad.com/the_plant_press/2014/10/the-erosion-of-collections-based-science-alarming-t...

I recently published a post discussing the differences between two commonly confused species in the genus Cyperus , C. esculentus and C. s...

The graminoids (mostly the grasses, sedges, and rushes) have a reputation for being difficult to identify to species, but it really just tak...