Plant Bingo

It seems like this hot spell really took a toll on my local wildflowers so after a few afternoons of forest wandering, I admitted defeat and headed down to the botanical garden. I used fireweed twice because my photo of serviceberry for inferior ovaries came out incredibly blurry. I had …

Plant BINGO

I was waiting for one of the mustards in the garden to go to seed to show a silique shape. Instead, I found this silique pod on a bleeding heart instead – does this count as silique or is it a silique shaped pod? Fun exercise! Doing it with live …

Plant Bingo

Hello, I gathered the photos from the UAF botanical garden, plants that I am growing, and from plants near my house. I hope I got everything correct with the definition and picture but please let me know if not. -Samantha

Pressed plants

I’ve been having internet issues at home and finally got a neighbor’s permission to drop a couple of small trees to improve my line of sight to the tower. These plants were collected while housesitting for a friend, so I chose to indicate Township/Range/Section rather than post what is essentially …