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Lycopodium obscurum (Ground Pine, Princess Pine) Lycopodium complanatum v. flabelliforme (Trailing Ground Pine) Lycopodium clavatum (Runnin...

"The odoriferous sassafras, with its delicate green stem, its three-lobed leaf, tempting the travelers to bruise it, it sheds so rare ...

Walking Stick on Sassafras albidum and Nursery Web Spider on Pyrola rotundifolia at Wintergreen Woods Nature Preserve in Laporte County, Ind...

The silver maple (Acer saccharinum) reaches out over South Olive Street in South Bend, Indiana. The oak (Quercus sp.) was on a county road s...

Botany Slide Show is scheduled for November 8, 2008. That's just over 1 month away! Please feel free to show up anytime after noon. The ...

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Nice Work!! The next quiz post is urine.

The Rotala ramosior post of a few days ago got me thinking. Scott mentioned that it has a C-value of 10 in the Chicago region. In Missouri...

Here is the next quiz. Let's hope fish n' chips95 doesn't get it first.

Fall is here. Today, in LaPorte County, Indiana, I saw Hamamelis virginiana (Hamamelidaceae) in bloom. Below is a photo. I can't imagi...

It's nice to know that Justin is safe and sound... I hadn't heard anything from him lately, and was beginning to wonder if "goo...

I'm running out of photos to use for quizzes! Here's the next one... it's an old photo, so the quality isn't great.

Here's a second try at posting the cleistogamous flowers picture, since the other won't expand when selected.

Great work, Scott! Racemed Milkwort is one of those admirable denizens of the dry country, showing up in places that are very hot and well-d...

Here is the next plant quiz. Good luck!

You've got it, Keith! Nice work. The quiz photo was of Gentiana saponaria. This species of gentian is found in sandy moist prairies and ...

Good luck!

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...