Get Your Botany On!

I had the opportunity on Saturday to botanize several southwest Michigan sites with Brad Slaughter and Dave Cuthrell.  As we were leaving a...

Just a few shots from a rich circumneutral seep in Cass County, Indiana on 22 May 2013...   Circumneutral seep Phlox maculata ...

  Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (be arberry) A member of the heath family. This low, woody, creeping evergreen plant resides in the Indiana Dun...

Today in Marshall County, Indiana, Betula nigra was blooming rather profusely.  I don't believe that I'd ever noticed it in flower...

Trillium grandiflorum at Bendix Woods The flo or of Bend ix Woods is carpeted with large-flowered trillium just now , and the other sprin...

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...