In the Company of Plants and Rocks

This month's South Dakota fern is  Polystichum lonchitis , Northern Holly Fern ( Andre Zharkikh ). It was the first paragraph on the fir...

Severely contorted innards of Upheaval Dome. Last September I visited two anomalous features on the generally orderly Colorado Plateau . The...

"... the fertile ones being so unlike the sterile, that no one who is unacquainted with the plant would suppose they had anything to do...

Are you wondering about "my families" in this year's botanical greetings? Nothing aberrant here, it's just that there is n...

"this curious fruit, which, when first discovered lying neglected beneath the tree, led the voyagers to fear and report it as a poison...