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The 2009 Ohio Botanical Symposium will be held in Columbus on April 3. Jim McCormac has a great write-up about the event here . A link to th...

With the botany sharks that circle this site, it is difficult for a quiz to last long. Scott is correct. This is Selaginella eclipes. Evide...

Here is a quick plant quiz. This was growing on a patch of raised ground in an acid seep in Iron County, Missouri.

Since from the weather reports I've been reading it doesn't seem like spring is coming any time soon to the Midwest, I thought I...

That's right, Keith... Erodium cicutarium, of the Geraniaceae! The genus name of this cute little weed from Europe comes from the Greek...

I am so tired of seeing that photo of me at the top of the page every time I visit Get Your Botany On! that I'm posting a plant quiz jus...

By the way, Lindsay and I were at the Wild Things conference in Chicago yesterday. I briefly talked to Jerry Wilhelm (who asked me to pass h...

In checking the news from northwest Indiana (nwi.com) today I couldn't help but notice the familiar face on the actor in the top hat. Is...

I'm not one to complain about the snow. I love the snow. I love the winter. But even I have to say that spring can't come quickly en...

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...