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Borderlands Mulberry
I walk by a native mulberry every day when I go to my office, the Books and Bones Retreat. I planted that Morus microphylla...
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America's Onion
The genus Allium has had quite a taxonomic journey and is at this time (stay tuned!) in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, where it had...
Lunch in an Open Shady Forest
I like this paragraph from The Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness: “Psacalium decompositum is a distinctive plant that apparently reaches its most northern...
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Flora, Fauna, Friends and Butterfly Weed
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) makes up for its lack of milky sap with the copious amount of nectar found in the flowers. Stand back...
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Shrine for the Desert Box Turtle
The better common name for Terrapene ornata luteola is the ornate box turtle. The name desert box turtle is old like me….not Miocene old…maybe...
Fallugia in a Book
Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is common around our little homestead and beyond. There are even thickets of it all along the banks of the...