by Kyle J Webster | Apr 26, 2009 | Plant Identification, Quiz
Look at the images below and see if you can guess to which species they belong. Maple trees are polygamodioecious. Some are all male and some are all female but sometimes parts of the tree can have male flowers and some parts female. Answers tomorrow.
by Kyle J Webster | Apr 25, 2009 | Ecology, Natural History, Publications, Apps, and Websites
An article by Bibi Stein in Wildflower Magazine’s Spring 2009 issue features the natural communities and plants of the riverside ice meadows at South of the Glen, in Warrensburg. Read it at http://www.wildflower.org/pastissues/?id=130 The magazine is published...
by Kyle J Webster | Apr 24, 2009 | Ecology, Plant Sightings
On Saturday April 25th, SUNY-Fredonia students and interested members of the public will visit the Alexander Preserve in Zoar Valley and devote the day to removal of invasive species within the Preserve in honor of Earth Week. The Preserve is owned and managed by the...
by Kyle J Webster | Apr 21, 2009 | Plant Sightings, What's Blooming
Late April is a good time to see our wildflower flora coming back to life after a long winter. You can spot individual species coming up before the rush of May and June when hundreds of species are blooming. In and around the red maple swamp at the end of my street...
by Kyle J Webster | Apr 20, 2009 | Field Techniques
I just finished reading an article entitled “How The E-book Will Change The Way We Read And Write” in the April 20 Wall Street Journal. It makes me wonder when our plant manuals will become available electronically and all we have to take into the field is...
