May 4, 2021
Trillium flexipes: a rare sextillium!!!!!!, three color variations of typical flowers
seen from India
seen from United States
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Hong Kong SAR China
seen from United States
seen from Norway
seen from United States
seen from South Korea
seen from China
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from United States
seen from France
seen from Sweden
seen from Türkiye
seen from Norway
seen from China
seen from Kazakhstan
seen from United States
seen from Norway
seen from United States
Trillium flexipes: a rare sextillium!!!!!!, three color variations of typical flowers
Some blue and purple season highlights: blue-eyed Mary, showy orchis, phlox, waterleaf. Not pictured: Jacob’s ladder, dwarf larkspur
Early April herb flora at Beechwood Farms: Dutchmens’ breeches, trout lily, community including cutleaf toothwort and bloodroot, white trillium, crinkleroot, Spring beauty
My study system, everyone
Cucumber Falls and forest herbs at Ohiopyle, April 2009. It was late in my last semester of college. I was coming up on 6 weeks off between graduation and starting a public garden job and the future looked bright, so my platonic ex (what is the correct term for this relationship???) and I ran off on a trip through Western PA and WV to go to For Real Fest in Athens, Ohio.
I ended up running off to Athens again for grad school in 2012 after my life fell apart and ended up spending 6 years there. A lot happened between then and now that I wouldn’t have expected on this warm spring day.
Botanical challenge: who are these trilliums?
Fine-scale spatial structure is an essential feature of plant populations, controlling pollination, herbivory, pathogen spread, and resource partitioning. Origins of spatial distribution are often...
The last chapter of my dissertation just dropped in Oecologia, check it out.
The Forest Herb Bash is upon us. I hope I never stop trying to outdo myself.