A Wandering Botanist

When I wrote a blog post about my visit to Wales a couple weeks ago ( link ), it got long before I had shared the full trip. Here are more p...

The New England aster ( Symphyotrichum novae-angliae aster family, Asteraceae) is very widespread; in North America it is found from the At...

I took a tour in Wales, mainly along the coast. Wales, the southwest corner of Britain, is about 170 miles long and 60 miles wide, but hills...

zucchini and yellow summer squash Sorting out the squashes is a job for experts, which I am not. They are wonderfully confused. “True squash...

red chrysanthemums   As summer fades into fall, a different set of plants dominate the landscape.  In my garden, the chrysanthemums that wer...

All sorts of small animals can be found on flowers. All of them can safely be called flower visitors. Of the flower visitors, some are polli...

Wood sorrels,  Oxalis,  with flowers like little yellow stars, are common plants in disturbed areas across much of North America. They are w...