Get Your Botany On!

In early May, Justin Thomas and I took our annual botany trip; this year, we botanized in South Carolina. I finally had a chance to look thr...

This attractive waterfall is on a tributary of the Salamonie River in Wabash County, Indiana. Remarkably, the stream runs clear even after h...

The strange little ferns shown below are members of Ophioglossaceae, the Adder's Tongue Fern family. Many are highly variable and subjec...

This is the elusive orchid long known as Habenaria viridis var. bracteata. More recently it has been called Coeloglossum viride var. viresce...

While in swampy woods in LaPorte County, Indiana this past weekend scouting for a field trip I am leading this coming weekend, I saw several...

Like tiny chandeliers, Columbines seem to light up the shaded hollows between old, wooded dunes and rock-walled canyons.

These two plants are sometimes confused by plant enthusiasts. Both flower at the same time and their deeply dissected leaves are similar. Ho...

In northern Indiana this attractive little plant is occasional in dry prairie remnants and open, dry woodlands. In late summer, remontant fl...

One of the few woodland ephemerals that is annual, Collinsia verna has been diminishing over the past several years at the few places where...

I attended the Missouri Native Plant Society field trip to Wildcat Glade in southwestern Missouri last weekend. Chert glades are a very rare...

There are four species of orchids with extant populations in Indiana that can be considered to be saprophytic and/or hemi-parasitic. They li...

Good call, Susan! It is Fragile Fern, a plant whose taxonomic status is not treated consistently by our many authors. Closely related and/or...

Good call, Mary. It is Ranunculus testiculatus , also known as Ceratocephalus testiculatus , Bur Buttercup. In the eastern U.S. it grows alm...