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I recently posted the following plant quiz...   ---------- Anyone able to ID this plant from what is shown in this photograph?  ...

When most people think of milkweed habitat, they think of prairie or old field areas.   Asclepias exaltata defies that logic, growing in w...

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I recently posted the following plant quiz...   ----------   Hopefully you haven't forgotten about us here at Get Your Botany O...

Asclepias ovalifolia is a milkweed of prairies, barrens, savannas, and open woodlands in the Upper Midwest. Asclepias ovalifolia See ...

...by Charles Osgood, CBS newsman, 1977. From “Nothing Could Be Finer Than a Crisis that is Minor in the Morning” by Charles Osgood, 1979. ...

Time to start catching up on photos from this growing season.   Back in late July, Lindsay and I joined a group from Save the Dunes 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...

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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 ...