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Flax-leaved Aster starts to flower pretty early for an aster, usually in late August. The leaves are very narrow and have scratchy-scabrous...

A YouTube Video Depicting all of Indiana's native orchids as accounted for in Orchids of Indiana by Mike Homoya This video represent...

On Friday before the Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society (INPAWS) Annual Conference in Bloomington, Indiana, I made a stop at the ...

Good article on this alarming trend... http://nmnh.typepad.com/the_plant_press/2014/10/the-erosion-of-collections-based-science-alarming-t...

I recently published a post discussing the differences between two commonly confused species in the genus Cyperus , C. esculentus and C. s...

The graminoids (mostly the grasses, sedges, and rushes) have a reputation for being difficult to identify to species, but it really just tak...

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...

UPDATE: THE AUGUST 21-22, 2014 WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT.  A SECOND SESSION IS BEING HELD ON SEPTEMBER 17-18, 2014.  RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY! ...

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...

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...