Get Your Botany On!

I recently posted the following plant quiz...   ---------- Been a while... how about a cropped photo plant quiz?   Good luck! ...

One of my favorite trees is Sassafras albidum . It’s a native of dry sand country and adds a lot of color and character to black oak ...

This picture of  Gentiana andrewsii  is posted for comparison to the Soapwort Gentian posted earlier. This attractive plant often grows ...

The foredunes along Lake Michigan are home to an interesting early successional plant community, but one that is not terribly diverse.  This...

One of my favorite things about autumn is finding gentians. And one of my favorite gentians is  Gentiana saponaria, Soapwort Genti...

I found this extremely funny! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqJkG2XhQ8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxPqJkG2XhQ8&nomobile=1

In early July, I joined Rich Dunbar and Roger Hedge in a search for one of Indiana's most diminutive and inconspicuous orchids, Malaxis...

I recently was in a sand prairie/savanna remnant in St. Joseph County, Indiana when I stumbled into a healthy population of Stachys hyssopi...

Wild Golden Glow!  This common native, Rudbeckia laciniata , lights up the darkness when it grows in damp, shady places.

The nodding flowers of  Lysimachia ciliata  seem to light up the shaded darkness of wooded floodplains in summer. Note the ciliate leaf p...

The tiny  Galium pedemontanum  was first discovered in the Chicago Region by the sharp-eyed Ken Dritz, who found it as a lawn weed in b...

Little  Sherardia arvensis is one of many obscure weeds that the inimitable Ken Dritz discovered in the Chicago Region. He also discov...

Campanula americana is a common native that tolerates the deep shade of mesic woods but often shows up along trail edges, forested road ...

Growing in rich, deeply shaded forests , Sambucus pubens  is much less common than the related Common Elderberry ( S. canadensis ). This ...

Campanula rotundifolia ranges pretty much all over North America, with the exception of the southeastern US. In northern Indiana, it is...

Occasional on wet sand flats and abundant in sphagnum bogs, sundews are plants that capture insects and eat them! Well, they don't ac...

Adding brightness to the low meadow on overcast days, Lysimachia terrestris is occasional in low, sometimes mucky spots in high quality we...

Have you noticed the super abundance of all kinds of fruit this summer, both wild and cultivated? Recall last spring that it just never got ...

Late last summer, I visited a site near Lowell in Lake County, Indiana and unexpectedly stumbled into a dry-mesic prairie opening with good...

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