by admin | Mar 15, 2011 | Natural History, Publications, Apps, and Websites
Now that plants are starting to flower (I have gotten reports of skunk cabbage and pussy willow) you can help record this natural phenomenon by using the New York-based website Project Bud Break. According to the website it is associated with a national effort, a...
by admin | Mar 14, 2011 | Publications, Apps, and Websites
This new website, www.my-plant.0rg, was created by Richard Olmstead and funded by the National Science Foundation to foster communication among botanists working on specific groups of plants. Users can create their own ‘clade’, like New York mints for...
by admin | Mar 8, 2011 | Natural History, Plant Identification, Publications, Apps, and Websites
Margaret Conover, a botanist from SUNY Stony Brook, has written an interesting overview of how botany has been taught in American high schools from 1800 to the present. She states that just over 100 years ago nearly all high-school students studied botany for a full...
by admin | Mar 8, 2011 | Publications, Apps, and Websites
Glen Mittelhauser is in the final stages of compiling and editing a field guide to the Cyperaceae of Maine (collaborative effort with Alison Dibble, Matt Arsenault, Don Cameron, Jill Weber, Sally Rooney, and Arthur Haines) and is on track for having this guide...
by admin | Feb 27, 2011 | Publications, Apps, and Websites
I have been looking for a complete illustrated plant glossary that would be accessible online. The closest I have come is one called the Botanical Visual Glossary by the LSU herbarium another by Arieh Tal that use photos to show plant parts with little arrows. This...
by admin | Feb 18, 2011 | Horticulture, Publications, Apps, and Websites
Visit THEIR WEBSITE to see a list of New York commercially available native plants suitable for planned landscapes. We have not gone through the list to see how good it is but maybe some of our readers can comment. They have a lot of nice photos however.
