Get Your Botany On!

Here are a few random glimpses of just a few of the people involved in botanical study in the Midwest. Special thanks to Scott Namestnik an...

The Photo Quest Continues... It was my good fortune this past summer to add two additional native orchid species to my list of Indiana...

The spikelets on this grass had all disarticulated when I took the photo, but I believe it is  Glyceria septentrionalis.  This is a large n...

In Indiana this scrubby native tree, Pinus banksiana , is frequent on the foredunes near Lake Michigan. Away from the lake most populations ...

The exceedingly rare  Chimaphila umbellata  var.  cisatlantica  is occasional in dune forests near Lake Michigan. Photographed beneath Jack...

This goldenrod, probably  Solidago rugosa , was found near the edge of degraded woods on sandy soil. Photographed in LaPorte County, Indian...

The comments in the previous post got me thinking about the legendary botanist Floyd Swink and what a remarkable life he led. When he passed...

Tipularia discolor produces a single leaf in autumn when the forest's canopy is thinning. The leaf is very distinctive: it has dark wa...

Fragaria virginiana  is very common in a variety of habitats and is especially abundant in sand country. Compound leaves like these, with t...