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I'm not sure that anyone is still playing the family game, except for me. In fact, I don't even know if our scorekeepers are still k...

No one correctly guessed the most recent plant quiz, Galeopsis tetrahit, common hemp nettle. Below are photos of the plant in flower. The ge...

While performing the last session of monitoring for this growing season at Cabin Creek Bog in Randolph County, Indiana, I found an orchid I ...

Nicole Kalkbrenner and I are currently in Superior, Wisconsin doing some botanical inventory work at a boreal forest restoration. We have b...

Below is the next plant quiz. Good luck!

YES! It IS Ambrosia bidentata . Nice work, Scott. This little fella is most commonly encountered along gravel roads in Missouri, but it also...

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to study in the field two of Michigan's rarest plant species. Hall's bulrush ( Schoenoplectus halli...

Here is the next installment of the "Plant Quiz". It is either super difficult or super easy. My attempts at allowing the image to...

Has anyone looked at the cover of the most recent Michigan Botanist, with a great paper on prairies in Michigan? Isn't that our very ow...

Somebody tell me how he does it! We've already got a winner to the most recent plant quiz, and it is Justin "Shotgun" Thomas. ...

Below is a photo of the next plant quiz. This photo was taken in September 2007 in an open woods near Bloomington, Indiana. Good luck!

We have a WINNER!!!! Scott Namestnik, please come forward to claim your prize. Indeed, my quiz photo was a mutated Heliopsis helianthoides t...

Hydrocharitaceae; Vallisneria americana growing in Wolf Lake in Whiting IN. Typically it was growing with Potamogeton amplifolius and Myr...

If you have some time, take a look at some of the links on http://www.scivee.tv/user/1202/video . Sort of interesting, and a different way ...

Xyris difformis from pin hook bog. I decided that the plant was difformis and not X. torta as the stems and leaves did not seem twisted and...

Below is an exerpt from an email I sent to a client that requested information about using FQA in conjunction with mitigation banks. I hadn...

Here's the new quiz! This plant was growing in open upland woods in southern Missouri. Have fun using your thinkers on this one! ***UPDA...

Yesterday in Elkhart County, Indiana, I saw something that I think I've only seen once before, on a river in southern Missouri.... Heter...

The first unknown I encountered while doing deer browse sampling in a woods in Will Co, IL. Most of the individuals were shorter, averaging ...