April 29, 2016 Bladderworts Mention the word carnivore and folks tend to picture animals known for their meat-eating ways. Lions and tigers and bears (though the latter actually are omnivores). Tyrannosaurus rex. Linebackers. Carnivorous plants, however, are a whole other matter. If you ask someone who’s not a botanist to name three different types I’ll
Aquatic Plant, Bladderworts, Wetland
February 27, 2015 Bird Tracks Large, green globes of flowers and thick purple stems make great angelica easy to identify. According to the late, great naturalist Dick Young, “The broad, pinnately compound, toothed leaves and large, rounded blossom umbels give angelica an ethereal, hazy, lazy cast…Its angel name fits.” Holy great angelica, Batman! Over the
Great Angelica, Plant, Wetland