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Bottlebrush Grass ( Hystrix patula or Elymus hystrix ) Tall Green Milkweed (Asclepias hirtella)

I just started re-reading Emma Pitcher’s book, “Of Woods and Other Things” (Beech Leaf Press, Kalamazoo, 1996), and already there are quote...

While conducting an invasive species survey at Hot Springs National Park in west central Arkansas, I ran into this interesting fern. It is ...

While I was finding a decent flowering specimen of Aster linariifolius (Flax-leaved Aster) to take a photo of yesterday at Miller Woods in ...

I am pretty sure this is Late Horse Gentian, since all of the leaves were perfoliate. Or as S&W says 'middle leaves pandurate, narr...

Can someone ID this wild beast so I can label the photos correctly? It was in dry Black Oak savannah just above a wet swale in Gary, Indiana...

This rather beautiful shrub can be the source of great misery for those who are sensitive to it. The rash and itching are severe...extremely...

Every now and then one finds a Spiranthes that exhibits "peloria," a phenomenon in which a plant that normally bears irregular flo...

Early to bed... early to rise... certainly applies... to the Buckeyes! Aesculus glabra (Buckeye) is one of the earliest trees to turn color ...

The end crowns the work - may the last be the best! The glorious time of Gentians is upon us - another growing season putting on its final s...

I recently posted this photo as a plant quiz... Keith wasn't fooled by my shenanigans. These are the bulblets of the roots of Dicentra ...

Late summer brings on the charismatic blues of fringed gentians in calcareous soils throughout the northeastern United States. I have recent...

Many people would look at the two photographs below and call both plants Virginia Creeper or Woodbine, Parthenocissus quinquefolia , without...

Good call Mary! Diarrhena americana it is - American Beak Grass, or Beak Grain. This uncommon, native grass is easiest to locate in late fal...

Habitat: old field, shady, lower on a slope, SE Indiana (Fayette County) Any help? Answer - Elephantopus carolinianus. Good job, Scott. I ...

With the sudden interest in gentians (what timing!); here is Gentiana linearis photographed in southern Vermont (8/18/09), where it is cons...

While working in Superior, Wisconsin a few weeks ago, we came across a gentian that I had never seen before, with dull grayish-blue closed f...