Get Your Botany On!

The latest email funny to make the rounds. I'm sure most of you have seen it already.

Marianne sent me this article from The Onion today... I Have Completed Stage One Of Our Plan To Take Over The World By Bur #318 January 7, 2...

Hamamelis vernalis (Ozark witchhazel) inhabits gravel bars and rocky streambeds on the Ozark Plateau in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma...

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...

Good call, Scott. English Daisy is an uncommon lawn weed in the Midwest. This colony was near the parking area at Russ Forest in Michigan. I...

Keith Board nailed the quiz. I saw a lot of this little guy in 2008. I assume that the wet spring had much to with it.

Here is a quiz plant, for those interested in such. The photo was taken in late June at MU Forestry Camp near Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Follow...

Santa Claus, who turns out to be my wife (who knew?), after slyly achieving family-based funding, scored me a new macro lens for my DSLR. If...

Last June I noticed this backlit Showy Lady's Slipper in Hammond, Indiana with the silhouette of a strange and beautiful bug. Is it a Ka...

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 ...

A surprising number of native plants are green in winter. It would be interesting and fun to list them sometime, and maybe even do a slides...

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...

The post below was the result of a quiz of a fossil I put on GYBO quite a while back. Prem Subrahmanyam was kind enough to not only correct...

Here is the latest quiz plant. Given the inherent generalities of paleobotany , genus will be fine.