Part 1 – The Remarkable Ketona Dolomite Glades, Bibb County, Alabama — 2020-05-31

Recently, I was fortunate to spend two fantastic days in the Ketona Dolomite Glades of Bibb County in central Alabama. I joined my good friends, Alan Cressler and Noah Yawn for a fun-filled day of botanizing in the remarkable, Kathy Stiles Freeland Bibb County Preserve photographing some of the many rare and endemic species found

Spigelia marilandica (Indian Pink): a study of color forms — 2020-05-15

Recently, I had the privilege of joining my good buddy (and excellent wildflower photographer), Alan Cressler on a trip to a remote site in Clay County, Alabama for the rare, “candy-stripe” form of Spigelia marilandica or Indian Pink. Here is a range map of the species, compliments of Biota of North America Program’s (BONAP) North

Puttyroot orchids: a species study — 2020-05-07

Earlier this week, I visited a new accession to one of South Carolina’s State Parks in the upstate (Greenville County) of South Carolina. For a couple of years, before the property had been added to the State Park, I had visited this site to check out several species of Trilliums and other wildflowers, and during

Visit to a nearby gneiss flat rock outcrop — 2020-04-30

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had the pleasure to visit a local, multi-acre flat rock outcrop to sample the unusual plant associations it has to offer. This is not my first blog post about this location, but since it is close by and the right time of year to see the best plants

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