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I recently posted the following plant quiz... ___________________________________________________________________ This one probably isn'...

You often will find botanists and wildflower enthusiasts doing flips and cartwheels in the field when chance brings them to plants with peta...

I had Scott help me with the ID. The lip was more than 5.5 mm, and the pubescence of inflorescence was capitate. I kept missing the fiddle...

Rats - I was hoping to stump the botanists! Good call, Scott. Yes, it's a remontant bloom of Oxalis violacea wihout leaves. In fact, if ...

Full plant view Growing on the granite shores of the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron At least I think I know the family ;)

Some of you know that I spend a lot of time on beautiful rivers in “the land of sky blue water,” northern Wisconsin. When I see a river pur...

Professional botanists and ecologist throughout the United States were sent a questionnaire last year regarding the state of botanical stud...

... and you're all invited! On Thursday morning, on a tip from Derek Nimetz of Indiana Department of Natural Resources - Division of Nat...

A plant quiz is far from overdue. The ability to identify grasses without fertile material is not for the faint of heart and is one of the m...

Linnaea borealis , Pattison State Park, Douglas County, Wisconsin Pyrola asarifolia , Pattison State Park, Douglas County, Wisconsin Cornu...

It's already mid-June. Where did Spring 2010 go? There were so many plants that I had hoped to see in flower this year that have already...

I've spent most of the last week in the sandy soil oak savannas of northwest Indiana and northwest Ohio. Here are a few photos from my r...

Asimina angustifolia This pawpaw was growing in a very sandy soil in a sunny powerline corridor in Madison County. It was a frequent low-gr...