Sunday, August 27, 2023

Variegated Plants

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Plant leaves are green, we all agree, maybe turning yellow or red in fall. But, in fact, you can grow plants with jewel-tone leaves. 
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Plant Story--Purple Locoweeds, Astragalus and Oxytropis, Doubly Poisonous

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That flash of magenta in the meadow  A closer loook shows its a legume, pea family, Fabaceae. In the Colorado Front Range, only locoweeds, m...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

Photos and Pictures, Ever Better

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When I started doing field work, about 1972, the cameras available with good enough lenses to take photos of plants or insects were big heav...
Sunday, August 6, 2023

A Hike in Evergreen, Colorado, July 2023

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Walk with me. Imagine late July at Alderfer Park in Evergreen Colorado, at 7800' in the Rocky Mountains. The morning was turning hot, ...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

Plant Story--Orange Mountain Dandelion, Agoseris aurantiaca

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Orange mountain dandelion is a an easily-recognized native wildflower of cool areas in western North America. orange mountain dandelion Agos...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Looking at Flowers Like A Bee

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Not all the bright flowers are equally attractive to a bee. Flower shapes are functional. They encourage pollination, but pollinators come i...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

Plant Story--Pretty, Aggressive Creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia

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 Some places in the U.S., creeping Jenny ( Lysimachia nummularia , primrose family Primulaceae) is a weed, some places a ground cover.  This...