It is daunting when you are learning to identify plants to decipher between a simple and compound leaf. At times, compound leaves are also referred to as Divided leaves. For this article, I will stick to the term Compound Leaves/Leaf. The suggestion usually made is to look for a bud at the base of theContinue reading “Compound Leaves: An Attempt to Explain with Examples”
Tag Archives: Wild plants
Mounting Botanical Specimens
One of the things I mentioned in my last post was a trip to the James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity to pick up specimens that needed to be mounted. Many of you have expressed interest in this task so I figured I would document and discuss some of the process. Mounting for me atContinue reading “Mounting Botanical Specimens”
Identifying Plants by Keying
If you have read my other posts on collecting weeds and wild plants, then the term keying may sound familiar so here is my long promised attempt at explaining that process. You may wonder, why not just snap a picture and run it through an app on your phone? Part of the fun of keyingContinue reading “Identifying Plants by Keying”
For the Love of Weeds ~ part 2
Yesterday I spoke of my love of weeds and mentioned that I am involved with collecting wild plants for an organization. So I will talk a bit about this today. Where I live, the county is steward to an herbarium, which is a collection of wild plants that are preserved for the purpose of research. Continue reading “For the Love of Weeds ~ part 2”
For the Love of Weeds
I always wondered about the plants that grow along the highway embankments and in the sidewalk cracks and curb sides. What are these things and how do they survive in what seem to be very hostile conditions? I like plants and flowers as much as the next person and I have had my garden plotContinue reading “For the Love of Weeds”
Diane Podolsky 