Through Handlens and Binoculars

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

Translations of Latin names of plants can sometimes be a bit misleading. Take, for example, Calochortus gunnisonii var. gunnisonii . Caloc...

One of the plants that I had hoped to see while in Colorado was Fairy Slipper ( Calypso bulbosa ). Unfortunately, this orchid typically flow...

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