A Wandering Botanist

Today, you mostly hear of St. John's wort ( Hypericum perforatum , St. Johns wort family, Hypericaceae) as a medicinal plant. It has bee...

Walking in Rocky Mountain National Park, there are many places where fallen trees lie. It looks messy.                           The visitor...

coneflower  If you are confused when someone points out a coneflower and it is not what you expected, you are not alone. I count forty diffe...

" If any man will ask any thing of a king or prince, [cinquefoil] giveth abundance of eloquence, if he have it with him, and he shall o...

shrubby cinquefoil, Dasiphora fruiticosa Cinquefoils are cute little flowers, usually yellow, in the rose family, Rosaceae. Traditionally th...

Last week I talked about the diversity of the bromeliads, plants in the family Bromeliaceae ( link ).  Here are photos of a bunch of them, a...

Bromeliad is the name of a plant family, Bromeliaceae,  turned into a common name. The family is almost entirely native to the New World and...