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Good call Scott. It is Diervilla lonicera, the native Dwarf Honeysuckle. I don't think there's a shrub in North America that Scott a...

The only clues are in the photo. Good luck!

Hi all. Thanks to Justin and Scott for telling me about this awesome blog, and thanks to Ben for setting me up as a contributor. I am a plan...

The 8th Annual Botany Slideshow Extravaganza took place in Salem, Missouri on 6-7 November 2009. Here, I will attempt to provide a recap of ...

JohnnyHank says it is Strophostyles helvula. Librarian or not, that is the right answer. Here is a photograph of the flower. Some of you m...

I recently posted this photograph as a plant quiz... It is difficult to post a quiz on this blog that lasts more than a day without an answe...

Good call, Scott and John! Diplazium pycnocarpon it is, also known as Glade Fern or Narrow-leaved Spleenwort. In northern Indiana this excee...

Photo from mesic woods in mid-summer. Good luck!

Just for fun, this is Geranium maculatum L. forma albiflorum (Raf.) House. It was photographed in low woods in Porter County, Indiana in 2...

Can you spot the deadly predator? Bottle Gentian, Gentiana andrewsii When sorting photos I'm always surprised to notice a detail I hadn...

What the.... ?!?! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6041241/Rat-eating-plant-discovered-in-Philippines.html http://www.popsci.com/e...

The eighth annual botany slide show is rapidly approaching, and in preparation I have been going through photos from our trip to Colorado th...

The 70 degree temperatures in northern Indiana today were likely our last taste of summer for quite some time. As I walked the trails on our...

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...