A Wandering Botanist

The familiar, elegant carnation is a plant with a long and interesting history, mostly forgotten, despite its importance as a decorative flo...

The view from airplanes is a gift we too often take for granted. C.J. Cherryh wrote, in Visible Light (1986),   that when the plane takes of...

 Cheatgrass, also known as downy brome and downy chess, Bromus tectorum (grass family Poaceae) is a very small grass that has become a majo...

Hummingbirds are a strictly New World group of birds, some 375 species (family Trochilidae) found from Alaska to southern Chile and Argentin...

Vera aloe has been a household remedy for burns for millennia. It still works. Vera aloe, Aloe vera

I live in Colorado. Castles are not a part of my landscape. So of course I was fascinated by the plants that had colonized the walls of Conw...

The dandelion is a plant everybody knows. That is quite a distinction since so many people are oblivious to the plants around them. And beca...