The glossary in the back of a flora is full of wonderful words that you may never had heard or seen before, especially if you’re not a botanist. I tend to wander up and down a page perusing other words and descriptions after I’ve found the explanation I was looking for. Sad, but true. Oh, and I can now say loculicidal rapidly 3 times in a row!
The photos are mine. I love the seed capsules with the oak stump behind. You can see the leaves aren’t really triangles, but hastate. Uh-oh, open up the glossary.
The photo taken on the flora page illustrates how the top of the seed capsule weakens and opens displaying the small black seed.
I like the name sumac. I learned it when I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth was...
Squash bees are out so early in the morning that they’re moving pollen around well before honey bees even arrive. Research done by the...
Petey wanders into the nearby hills and comes across a couple different species of native bunch grasses and tells us all about them.