A Wandering Botanist

I grew up calling it butter-and-eggs, a pretty little plant in the meadows of New York and Ohio.  butter-and-eggs, Linaria vulgaris , yello...

We see the world around us, but we can't see what it was. Visiting San Francisco in November, the National Park Presidio was full of inf...

The cinquefoils are easily recognized and found all around the world. There are about 400 species of cinquefoil, genus Potentilla (rose fami...

It was November and San Franisco's flowers were blooming! California poppies, Eschscholzia californica , in a San Francisco lawn

My parents had a pretty little tree in the corner of the yard, a mountain ash. As a kid, I paid it very little attention. Meanwhile, I read ...

We curtailed our travel--or it was curtailed for us--due to covid. Now we're starting to get out again, finding that travel is changed a...

Four o'clocks are flowers I've loved since childhood. And, since I was a child, what I liked best were the seeds. Big, round with a ...