Through Handlens and Binoculars

Here in Indiana, clovers ( Trifolium spp.) don't get people very excited. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that a clove...

Last May on Get Your Botany On! , I posted about Indian Paintbrush ( Castilleja coccinea ) that I had seen recently in Lake County, Indiana...

Were you able to figure out the plant that I was looking at in the photograph in my previous post? Here's a closer look... ... and here ...

As you will see as I continue to post photos from our trip to Colorado in July, the subalpine and alpine meadows were painted with a pallett...

A somewhat common plant that we saw in the alpine life zone in Colorado was Snowball Saxifrage ( Saxifraga rhomboidea ), a member of the fam...

Ahh... the alpine. Before our trip to Colorado in July 2009, we had never seen the alpine. I had images in my mind of short plants topped wi...

On 6-7 November 2009, Lindsay and I were in Salem, Missouri for the 8th annual Botany Slideshow Extravaganza. By Thursday evening on our way...