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Jasmin LaBotaniste @labotaniste.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Arctostaphylos alpina glowing bright red in the autumn sunlight 🌞🍂 #wildflowers #botany

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looking for reccomendations for good books on Ancestral Puebloan and Hohokam archaeology. Also histories, etc of indigenous peoples in NM and AZ.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tim McKenna took this gorgeous shot of the Chisos Mountains of the Big Bend region in West Texas after a recent rain. In the foreground are common sotol (Dasylirion wheeleri) & Texas sage (Leucophyllum frutescens), both Texas native plants with unusual properties. (📷: Tim McKenna Photography)

"Cenizo flowers, Sotos blooms and the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park." Big stalks of sotos blossoms, low purple sage shrubs and lots of green across the desert plains.
CREDIT: Tim McKenna, Terlingua local.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A milkweed flower makes fake figs: brood-site mimicry and mutualism in Heterostemma ficoides Kidyoo et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/HNYYIN...

Overall appearance of Heterostemma ficoides and Ficus heterophylla.

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was today years old when I learned that Spiranthes orchids are found in Europe too.

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Joking about killing inoffensive creatures says a lot about your character, or lack thereof.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This week: Crassulaceae. The family has 35 genera & about 1500 spp. They are mostly succulents, like this Aeonium arboreum subsp. arboreum from the Canary Islands, & are eagerly grown by aficionados. #succulent #Crassulaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a sparsely branched shrub growing in the wild among dried grasses. The branches terminate in rosettes of leaves. One branch is producing a terminal panicle of small, yellow flowers. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Kay on the Prairie @kayontheprairie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excited to see that the Closed Bottle Gentian is going to bloom this year! There are certainly plenty of bumblebees in the prairie garden to pry them open. 💙🐝 #gardening #nativeplants

Closed bottle gentian starting to bloom. The blue flowers will remain closed even when they are ready. Bumblebees are the only pollinators strong enough to pry them open to get to the pollen inside

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Dustin Knight @kitsunewarlock.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wear an N95. Get a vaccine once they are available. Fight disinformation. And remember to check your voter registration.

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Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

R.I.P. 🌹

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toxicojendron radicans @toxicoradica.northsky.social · 21/08/2026

🌸 blood milkwort 🌿 Senega sanguinea #nativeplants #ecoregion71

seen from the side, a spike-like raceme of tiny flowers at the top of a thin green stem. the base of the raceme is empty, only little bracts left on the otherwise bare main stem after the seedpods and faded flowers have fallen away. about halfway up the raceme there are a few faded flowers that have developed little seed capsules bearing brown seeds. above that there are around half a dozen closely packed rows of petal-like sepals, colored white with pink towards their tips, raised & pressing inward to form a column hiding the developing fruits within. the pink color is more vivid higher up the raceme. at the top, the tiny yellow petals of a blooming flower can be seen over the tops of the petal-like sepals below it. at the very top is a short stack of light green flowerbuds.

looking down from above at a spike-like raceme of tiny flowers. at the very top of the raceme there are miniscule light green flowerbuds. just below, there are three flowers blooming, each with three yellow petals. the upper two petals overlap, while the lower one is curved and crested and complicated and it's all very small and hard to see what's going on in there. an older flower on the upper left has turned red. each flower has two relatively large petaloid sepals at its base that cup around the flower. these large sepals are white at the bottom and pink on top.

blood milkwort growing in a grassy field. it is much taller than clover growing beneath it, but much shorter than the grass. definitely over ankle-high though. it has a smooth, ridged, green stem with linear green leaves. the stem puts out two branches towards the top; all three subsequent stems terminate in a raceme of many little flowers that shield themselves from the outside world with a pair of relatively large petaloid sepals, colored white at their base but turning pink at the tips. the older sepals lower on the stalk blanch; the uppermost sepals are most vivid. a few flowers bloom at a time, within the bowl at the top of their raceme formed by the ascending sepals below. their yellow petals are barely visible. many dozens of short, thin bracts are left on the stalk below the column of flowers where older flowers have faded, gone to fruit, then dropped their seeds.

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Jasmin LaBotaniste @labotaniste.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gentiana anisodonta! Merci @cosmicrubisco.bsky.social ! (Note to self: don't post when tired 😅)

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Jasmin LaBotaniste @labotaniste.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Epilobium fleischeri #wildflowers #botany

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James ⛰️🌾🇵🇸 @plantbard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I fucking love the eastern Sierra

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A little game ahead of #FernFriday 🌿 🤔 Only 1 of these 4 photos doesn't show any #fern. Can you find which one? I'll post the answer and more details tomorrow! #botany

Green to reddish, clover-like lobed leaves

Several stout plants with crowns of large pinnate leaves, one of the plants with coiled leaflets on all its leaves

A large bipinnate leaf with a terminal reproductive portion

A pound with two types of plants with floating leaves. One has large water lilly-like leaves, the other forms dense areas of small leaves

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Epargyreus clarus, the Silver Spotted Skipper hanging out on a prairie in KY last Sunday. #insects #nature #naturephotography #butterfly

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Agkistrodon contortrix doing the typical danger noodle thing (Minding its own business) in Eastern KY a few weeks ago.

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Andropogon gerardi in flower. This large prairie grass is one of my favorites. #grasses #botany #nativeplants #kentucky

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Botany One @botany.one · 10/08/2026

Meet the Brazilian Cerrado’s Greatest Impostor www.botany.one/meet-the-bra... Researchers discover the first case of floral mimicry in South America, showing how a nectarless orchid poses as a Jacaranda to deceive pollinators. #Botany #PlantScience

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Meet the Brazilian Cerrado’s Greatest Impostor

Researchers discover the first case of floral mimicry in South America, showing how a nectarless orchid poses as a Jacaranda to deceive pollinators.

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Atteva aurea, the Ailanthus Webworm moth. This small, but colorful moth has expanded its range north from the Americam tropics due to its ability to utilize the invasive Ailanthus altissima-tree of heaven-as a host plant. #insects #photography #nature #naturephotography #moth

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Last night our waiter asked us for a cool factoid about desert plants after learning we are botanists. I told him about CAM. He came back later and asked for another more interesting fact. Brutal. 😂

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A wealth of fossil seeds found in New Mexico rewrites what we thought we knew about how dinosaurs gardened ancient forests. To get pieces like this first, sign up for my newsletter on Buttondown. buttondown.com/restingdinof...

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Flowers For Dinosaurs — Riley Black

A wealth of fossil seeds reveal a burst of flowering plant evolution before the big asteroid strike that ended the Age of Dinosaurs.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Mangrove forests were long viewed as expendable, and turned into rice paddies, oil palm plantations, fish farms and even rubbish tips. But since 2010, they have expanded globally by more than 2,000 km2. That's *great* news for wildlife, climate and people. theconversation.com/the-worlds-m...

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The world’s mangrove forests are bouncing back. That’s good news for our coasts and climate

A new study suggests the world’s mangrove forests are expanding.

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Skittles @skittlesmom.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Lush swamp at sunset

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Four years ago today 🌿 Monotropa hypopitys, our Pinesap, blooming above Palmer Lake Number 2 #nativeplants. This plant has no chlorophyll and comes in white, creamy yellow or red as seen here.

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Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🌿 Platanthera lacera | ragged fringed orchid, seen lighting up a little swamp next to the boardwalk. They had never been seen in this county before. #nativeplants #bloomsky

unspeakably frilly white-green flowers. There is an upper hood structure and three incredibly frilly petals. All are at roughly 90 degree tilts from each other.

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Who said pterosaurs weren't cute? Meet Anurognathus, a small fuzzy guy with a frog-wide mouth! ___ #paleoart #sciart #paleotoon #pterosaurs #anurognathus #cute

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Kay on the Prairie @kayontheprairie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What a beauty! Spotted this healthy Monarch larvae hanging out on the Prairie Milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii) in the prairie garden tonight 🐛 #caterpillars #gardening #monarchs #nativeplants

Large monarch caterpillar attached to the underside of a prairie milkweed leaf

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hookeria acutifolia is a member of a genus of mosses found mostly in the tropics. In Appalachia, this species is adapted to life in the protection of the backs of rock shelters. It is known for its large cells, visible to the naked eye. #nativeplants #botany #kentucky #bryophytes #plants

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Jasmin LaBotaniste @labotaniste.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Silene exscapa and Minuartia sedoides #wildflowers #botany #Queyras

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Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

two lilies from north Georgia Lilium superbum | turk’s cap lily Lilium michauxii | Carolina lily One from a mountainous cove forest, the other from an ultramafic barren

5 speckled lilies that do resemble orange turbans growing atop a tall stalk. Very exerted stamens for da leps.

a similar lily but bigger, with less of a turban tightness. Also has exerted stamens for da leps.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I don't use this word lightly, but this is evil.

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I saw them all over the place when I was there as well a few months ago. Monstera and those 'pothos' vines were real bad too. Noticed that the snake plants there flowered in March, while my potted one seems to do so during the summer up here.

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Kay on the Prairie @kayontheprairie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Crab Spider doing it’s best Wild Bergamot impression #spider #nativeplants #nature #gardening

A crab spider laying on a wild bergamot (bee balm) bloom

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sandhills milkweed (Asclepias humistrata), setting seed earlier this month in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment, in South Carolina Endemic to the southeastern U.S. coastal plain, this might be my favorite milkweed. Look at those leaves!

Sandhills milkweed (Asclepias humistrata) leaves

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Nine years ago today 🌿 Dalea purpurea, our Purple Prairie Clover, blooming at NCAR #nativeplants

Cylindrical inflorescence blooming from bottom up with numerous purple-petals flowers with golden anthers

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Bosque seco de Guánica had this super cute concrete sculpture of a sapo concho (Peltophryne lemur) that I'd love to have a copy of, though it'd look suoer out of place with the flora I'd have it surrounded with.

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Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🌿 Platanthera grandiflora | greater purple fringed orchid seen in the mountains of southwest Virginia in 2023. Endangered (S2) in Virginia. #nativeplants

A spike of pink-purple flowers. the three lower petals, arranged at right angles to each other, are frilly. The top petal look like a little awning over the sexy bits.

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Jasmin LaBotaniste @labotaniste.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And another mini-tree: Salix herbacea #wildflowers #botany #Queyras

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Drosera rosulata One of the tuberous sundews that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. This one was happily growing around a granite outcrop in the Perth Hills in late autumn 🌿 #ozflora #fierceflora #sundew #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

Picture of a sundew with deep red leaves that are covered sticky hairs with a cluster of delicate white flowers emerging from the centre of the plant.

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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 16/06/2026

I don’t talk about it much, but I suffer from the worst curse: every full moon, I turn into a small patch of green colouration on a nearby rock. That’s it. No abilities, no movement, nothing cool. I hate being a lichenthrope.

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Primula frenchi (French's Shootingstar) growing in a rock shelter in southern IN in May of 2023. This rare plant specializes in growing inside sandstone rock shelters. #wildflowers #nativeplants #botany #Indiana #nature

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Asimina triloba (Pawpaw) flowers (And spider friend!!!) from a woods in central Kentucky back in April of 2024. These produce one of North America's tastiest native fruits. #nativeplants #flowers #nature #kentucky #wildflowers #botany

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We're meeting Northumberland's own William Turner, often called the father of British botany, on Fabulous Folklore this week. Find out why this religious firebrand and revolutionary thinker created A New Herball! www.icysedgwick.com/william-turn...

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Tried out the greca for the first time. No doubt I'm doing it wrong. Def don't know how to steam milk.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Yesterday, I posted about eastern N. America’s Lilium grayi, a hummingbird-pollinated species. Western N.A. (where there are more spp. of hummingbirds) also has bird-pollinated species, such as L. bolanderi (📷: Annie Zell CCBYNC4). #Lilium #pollination #Liliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

A photo of a lily stalk in mountainous terrain. The leaves are whorled, and the flowers are red and trumpet-shaped.

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Today years old finding outvabout a hummingbird pollinated lily in Appalachia!

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