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Sycamores on a Gravelly Plain
I’ve written a lot of episodes about sycamore trees over the years. Below are some of the things I wrote for those episodes. “I...
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Autumnal Wild Cotton
I use the common name wild cotton, but here are some other common names: Thurber’s cotton, desert cotton, and algodoncillo. Your choice, but if...
Layer Up!
It was Carl Linnaeus, the king of binomial nomenclature, who decided to use the classical Latin name fraxinus as the genus for ash trees....
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My Girlfriend Hanna
Talking about desert broom (Baccharis sarothroides) is a November tradition and so is singing an old hymn that I like to play with. The...
Fall Hunt and Gather
I loved sitting in that grassland and warming up with a rising sun. Is there anything better than sitting quietly and watching the natural...
Plummer's Onion
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, who was on the receiving end of the Lemmon’s collections, that named the onion collected in the...