Get Your Botany On!

When I got home from work on Friday, it was dark out, but I noticed a snow angel in our yard. I went out today to take a photo... Any thou...

As most of you know, I was in Nashville, Tennessee in October for the Natural Areas Association annual conference. I showed a few photos fro...

Well, it's winter here in northern Indiana. We were handed between 8 inches and a foot of snow on Thursday and Friday. It's beautifu...

The rare and spectacular Baptisia leucophaea is hard to find in Indiana, but in sparsely wooded sandy fields at the South Bend Motor Speedw...

Here are the quotes that Karen and I read to accompany the composite slide show. Achillea millefolium (yarrow) Sister Yarrow, Knight’s Milf...

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.