A Wandering Botanist

 It is not from Canada, though you can find it there... The plant we call Canada thistle, Cirsium arvense (sunflower family, Asteraceae) is...

It was planned an easy morning hike: park the car at Chataqua Park in Boulder, Colorado, and walk southward, uphill. But the Front Range had...

Across the West, a spot of bright orange--it's cowboy's delight, copper mallow, scarlet globemallow, Sphaeralcea coccinea: This is a...

The idea for today's blog was to share photos of plants in dramatic landscapes across the world. I have thousands of photos, but very fe...

Right now, in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico, cutleaf vipergrass ( Scorzonera laciniata ) is flowering.  cutleaf vipergrass, black ...

My yard has very little lawn, meaning areas with a monoculture of grass. Northern Colorado is too dry for standard varieties of Kentucky blu...

We had a blast of sleet and cold rain and now a forecast for rain and cool all week. So I'm posting pictures of tropical vines in flower...