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A coworker recently brought me two fossils that were collected by an excavator working near Dewart Lake in Kosciusko County, Indiana.  ...

Potentilla arguta ... at least that's how I picture the conversation between William Dampier and a field assistant upon seeing the s...

Yes, in fact it is about time that I compose another post for Get Your Botany On!, as it's been nearly two months since my previous post...

Abby recently sent me the quote and picture of an engraving below, which reminded her of her first summer of monitoring with Tony and me.  I...

On this day 232 years ago, botany, and science in general, lost a real rock star. Carl von Linné (aka Carl Linnaeus or Carolus Linnaeus), th...

Dr. Verne O. Graham pauses beside Swertia/Frasera caroliniensis, American Columbo, in Cook County, Illinois, 1923. Published on page 427 of...

Britton, from http://rptsweb.tamu.edu/Pugsley/Britton.htm Botanist and Taxonomist Nathaniel Lord Britton was born on January 15, 1857 at New...

I don't have any recent plant photos to share as a quiz, so my quiz will be botanical trivia instead. What American botanist was born on...

From www.lewis-clark.org Thomas Nuttall was born in Long Preston in Yorkshire on January 5, 1786. He moved to America in 1808, and stayed un...

What famous botanist and birder, who spent plenty of time in the Great Lakes Region and also some time in Missouri, was born on this day in ...

Before Lindsay and I went to Jamaica this past June, Andrew Blackburn told us that while we were there we had to try the Akee and Saltfish, ...

On December 29-30, 1940, the Germans firebombed London, leading to hundreds of fires around the city. Among other things, this devastation d...