A Wandering Botanist

Floating water hyacinth , Eicornia crassipes The water hyacinth is one of the plants I treasure because I learned about it before I knew...

It's early spring, a few plants are flowering but lawns are still brown and trees are leafless. So let's take a walk from a June tri...

It is spreading all over my yard, but I can't get its name right. I'm used to calling it Oregon grape, but in fact, the one on ...

Pretty red flowers on a small tree, the flowers upturned or curved like crescents. Called coral trees or coral bean, the genus is Erythr...

San Diego is at the southern end of California: you can see Mexico easily. Given that location, it has mild southern winters. It is als...

Flowers are showy and essential for reproduction by their plants, but leaves contain the photosynthetic aparatus and are the source of fo...

Pansies are so commonly planted as to seem uninteresting. Indeed, I have surprisingly few photos of pansies in my large collection of photog...