Get Your Botany On!

Seems a little early for a "first flower of the year" post, doesn't it? Not when that first flower is the winter- to spring-bl...

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Our annual botany slide show will be held next weekend; it really snuck up on me this year. This year, my slide show will highlight the trip...

To someone from the Great Lakes region, botanizing in Florida in March can be a bit difficult. It seems like nearly all of the trees have en...

Winter has definitely set in here in northern Indiana, so I am not taking many photos of plants these days. This is the time of year that I...

At Warren Woods in Berrien County, Michigan, I ran into this unusual beech tree while exploring off-trail. Its exaggerated lower portion is ...

I recently posted this question: Can you name the plant, and the bug that makes these markings? Should be easy! Prem and Scott both suggeste...

The South Bend-Elkhart Audubon Society annual holiday potluck is this Sunday, and the program at this event is members' slide shows. I...

I was working in Southwestern Indiana (Dubois County) in a woodland, when I came upon a stand of understory trees that looked from a distanc...

Uncommon and difficult to find, these remnants of earlier times exist mostly due to the preservation efforts of caring people at The Nature ...

Can anyone share thoughts on the identification of this Trillium? I'm labeling photos from 2010 and not sure what it is. Trillium cuneat...

One nice thing about itinerant botanical exploration is the sights we take in along the way, and the telling of stories afterward. Four year...

Cdr nailed it! Who else knew that Alfalfa had spiraled fruits? I see it often as a lingerer or an escapee, but I had never noticed the fru...

Scott nailed it!! First I thought this quiz would be too easy. Then I feared it was too difficult. I took the photo because I, just like Sco...

Earlier this fall I discovered these helical carrots spooning obscenely in the garden... ...and shortly after, here was quack grass (I thin...

I recently posted the following plant quiz... ************************* Well, October and Breast Cancer Awareness Month have come to an end....

One of my favorite weeds, Dianthus armeria adds color to old clay fields, dry prairie remnants, and sandy savannas. Posted here in honor of...

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month winds to a close, here are a few more pink plants to honor those who have suffered from this horrible disea...

This arching shrub is an escape from cultivation that grows west of South Bend, Indiana, along the edge of a woods near the Grand Trunk Rail...

Rare and local, this remarkable plant can still be found in quality swamp forests and open, wet meadows. It is now called Platanthera psycod...