Getting dressed for work one morning last week I spied my TG 5 camera on the edge of my dresser,…
For hundreds of years these tiny aquatic plants were considered to form part of the family Lemnaceae. But morphological similarities…
I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that I didn’t know we even had multiple genera of freshwater mussels in our…
Although I had read about these interesting, and rather beautiful, tiny ferns in the family Salviniaceae (water ferns), I had…
I know that many people really dislike Oxalis corniculata, but, as a non-gardener or lawn enthusiast, I’m rather fond of this pretty…
In our region this wonderful, circumboreal member of the family Asteraceae is composed of both native and exotic strains. This…
I love weeds! Possibly I’d feel different if I was a gardener, but since I’m not, and I live in…
These beautiful and striking bugs are members of the family Cantharidae (soldier beetles). Since this is my first profile of…
This beautiful member of the rose family has many common names, including western hardhack, Douglas’ spiraea, steeplebush, and western, pink…
This member of the family Cornaceae (dogwoods) is an allotetraploid hybrid of Cornus canadensis and C. suecica. Being tetraploid it…