Get Your Botany On!

Uvularia grandiflora was flowering abundantly today in central Indiana on wooded slopes facing south and west.

This well known native, Trillium sessile , was flowering in central Indiana today. It is similar to Trillium recurvatum , but Sessile Trilli...

Often growing among the ephemerals of our springtime woodlands, Cystopteris fragilis is one of the earliest ferns to emerge in Indiana. ...

I know this is an introduced agricultural weed, but it is fun to see and learn new plants, and to refresh and relearn the old plants. My br...

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...