A Wandering Botanist

Winter enhances memories of summer. Here is a July visit to Guanella Pass, in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado.  Rocky Mountains, cen...

In April, 2018, I visited the Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu and was delighted to see a double coconut, Lodoicea maldivica , (palm fami...

A few decades ago, milkweeds (genus Asclepias ) were simply common native plants that could be poisonous to livestock, so they were ignored ...

 I flew into Manchester England for the start of a tour of Wales. It was September and I wondered whether any plants were still flowering. A...

I think the word disambiguation is cute. It means to remove uncertainty, and in this context and Google's, to point out when two differe...

I had two nights in Iceland thanks to Iceland Air. It was the end of September and I signed up for a tour north and west of Reykjavik, to th...

Sumacs are common shrubs in North America, and inconspicuous except in the fall, when the leaves turn a brilliant red.