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Grassland Plant ID
Unless you are a botanist and are comfortable keying out plants in a flora, the only way for the rest of us to identify...

The Story of Numida meleagris
I don’t know any poultry fancier that doesn’t have a guinea fowl story or two, but chickens are usually where it all starts, as...

Provenance is good, but give me the story
For me, every good story about a native plant starts with the source of the plant, its provenance. Then the story follows. I can...

Floriferous Madness
Lotus greenei has the common names of deer vetch, deer clover or, red and yellow pea. I like the last one best as it...

Heuchera sanguinea and Apocynum cannabinum
Coral Bells or Alum Root are Heuchera and in this case I’m talking about the species sanguinea. There are 6 species of Heuchera found...

Leptotes marina
There are so many species of Blues across North America and I was delighted to figure out the species in abundance at our little...